Are you OK with this, Sean?
Is Sean Patrick
Maloney OK with dangerous sex offenders being free to lurk around nursery
schools and victimize young children thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous bail
reform law?
In case you missed it…
Bail reform: Sex offender freed after Orange County nursery school
playground arrest
WABC-TV
February 28, 2020
https://abc7ny.com/5973531/
NEW WINDSOR, Orange County (WABC) — Police in New Windsor arrested a sex
offender for allegedly trespassing at a nursery school, but he has since been
freed under New York state’s new bail reform law.
Authorities say 61-year-old Mark Edward Nelson, of Newburgh, entered the
facility’s fenced-in playground.
Two employees of the school and two children were exiting out of the side door
to the playground when Nelson allegedly tried to approach them in the darkened
area and make contact with them.
The women and children then retreated to their vehicle, left the area and
called the police.
New Windsor police say that Nelson is a Level 3 sex offender in New York State.
Level 3 is the most dangerous level.
In 1996, he was convicted of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 10 and 11.
In this incident, Nelson was located and arrested for third-degree criminal
trespass, a misdemeanor.
He was released on his own recognizance under the new law that prevents him
from being remanded to jail.
“A level three offender, who has the most likelihood of reoffending, who
had committed the most egregious crimes can lure and try to make contact with
young children in a fenced-in area of a schoolyard, of a nursery schoolyard
playground, we cannot have fallen any further as a society,” Assemblyman
Colin Schmitt said.
Nelson has been relocated to a motel used by Orange County Social Services.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said that some changes to the bail reform law could be
enacted by April 1.