California Motel Home To 11 Sex Offenders
Residents Create Petition To Try To Oust Motel Residents
POSTED: Monday, March 3, 2008
UPDATED: 8:58 pm CST March 3,
2008
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Residents in Bakersfield, Calif., are outraged that 11 registered sex offenders are living right down the street from school bus stops and children.KERO-TV spoke to parents who want that to change.Maria Lopez is a mother of two children younger than the age of 6. Three days ago, she looked at the Megan's Law Web site and found nearly a dozen registered sex offenders were living just a few blocks away from her home at the El Don Motel.“I don't want anything to happen to them (kids),” Lopez said. “If anything happens to them I don't know what would happen to me. Because they are under my care. Not anyone else's.”She's not the only person angry. Jim Starkey owns a home for people with disabilities located right next door to the motel where the sex offenders are living.He said the criminals are too close to clients and kids. “Within 200 steps of this housing, there is a bus stop. Make no mistake they're (sex offenders) watching these kids get on and off these buses."Casa Loma Elementary School is one mile away from the motel, falling in compliance with Jessica's Law, which mandates that sex offenders to live only 2,000 feet away.Residents said they’ve taken action into their own hands by creating with a petition to get the county to relocate the sex offenders.Residents said they have gathered 60 signatures on the petition since Sunday night and plan to eventually present it to state Sen. Dean Flores.
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