In Ostego, Michigan a local summer baseball league coach was removed from his position Friday after school officials found out he was listed on the Michigan State Sex Offender Registry.
He was coaching for a week when an aware parent notified the school that the coach was a sex offender from 1996. As a parent, you should notify school officials if you are aware of these issues. You can do a search on “sex offender registry” to locate the appropriate resource in your area, and also check out Neighborhood Watch.
That the parent had to tell the school shows a flaw in the school’s system of effectively vetting individuals who will work with children. The school district went on to say that while they screen volunteers in the hundreds of background checks they do, this individual’s may have been overlooked. What is also a possibility is the coach lied on his application which skewed the results.
Officials point to the sex offender putting his name alongside his father’s name on the application, as his father may have had some ties to the league. This may have been done to confuse the background check process as well.
If you are a sex offender, and you have been prosecuted for something you did to a kid, what the heck could possibly be your motivation to want to work alongside kids, and possibly be discovered? There’s no way to rationalize irrational behavior. I think these kids and their parents dodged a bullet.
That parent who brought to to the attention of the district is a hero.
Robert Siciliano is a Personal Security Expert and Adviser to Intelius.com. For more information see Intelius at Sex Offender Check to reduce your chances of encountering a bad guy. (Disclosures) To help protect your kids when they’re online, you can install and use parental control software. Check out NextAdvisor’s parental control software reviews to see which one will work best for you.
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