I know that its a sad fact that there are a large number of sex offenders in Ark City.  The thing most people dont know is that these offenders work and live very close to parks and schools! They are allowed to work as city empoyees and numerous other jobs that give them access to children.  Can anyone do anything about it?  The answer is no because they are giving more rights then others.  I know this personally because I lost a lot when I tried to expose one of these offenders!  The justice system doesnt work well in Cowley County because what some call the "good Ol Boy System."  Is it fair that a child moslester is given custody of a daughter when her mother has fought hard to keep the child?  No, but no one really cares do they.  When we took our story to the newspapers we were told they couldnt help us because of who the person was.  My daughter has tried to get the child back but has failed everytime because of the broken system.  Am I mad ?  Yes! Do we still put up a fight ?Yes.  Does it make a diffrence? Nope!  5 years of waiting for the system to see that shes a good mother and that money and power is the only thing that stops her from being with her child and protecting her daughter from a family that allows the CHILD MOlESTER to keep custody and abuse women.

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Fairy Tales,
Why don't you tell us your story. Maybe the paper won't print it, but they might let it go on here. Just be careful that your words don't meet the criteria for libel (Don't use the people's full names, etc). Maybe it would get some much needed attention, because we know the writers and editor read these boards. And maybe, just maybe, it will reach someone who is in a position to help.

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My story is that my daughter was 19 when she got invoved with a man from Winfield.  Just weeks after them meeting he moved in with us.  I did'nt really approve because the guy had no job and was 26 yrs old.  But, I foolishly okayed it.  Not long after that she became pregnat but was unsure as to wheather she wanted to be with him.  Since I had divoriced she knew how hard it had been on me as a single mother so she tried to stick it out.  Not long after that he began abusing her physicaly and she'd lie for him because she did'nt want anyone to know.  Not long before the baby was born my daughter and the man went to live with his parents.  She would come to my work because they forbide her from contacting me any other way so she'd sneek out of their house while they were all at work.  After the baby was born they moved into an apartment and the abuse grew much worse and so she took the child and left the state.  He ended up talking her into getting back togather but she had to sign papers that stated she couldnt have the child if she ever left again.  His parents are the ones who forced her into saying that since she had postpartum depression that the JUdge wouldnt give a crazy woman custody.  Things rocked along and they moved back in with me and he began hitting her again but this time she sent him to jail and was done for good.  My daughter wasnt told about his child molesting habits until she found the court papers about it at his parents house.  He lied and said that the girl lied about her age.  He was 26 and she was 13.  He also failed to mention that he'd been convicted of it when he was 13 with a 6yr old girl!  My daughter was devestated.

So after we fought in court awhile he was awarded custody because I handed out the KBI flyers letting everyone know what he was and that he worked for the sanitation dept of Ark City.  That was in 2002 and to this day none of the judges will give her custody because the parents have too much of a bond with the child and is supposed to monitor his actions.  But he got two other girls pregnat within months of each other and refuses to accept custody of them.  By the way mine is a girl whereas the other 2 are boys! 

My daughter is now a mother of two little boys and married to a really great guy.  She fights the battle everyday to get custody but no lawyer in town will touch the case since she is fighting a winfield city employee that is highly admired.

Your daughter should hire a lawyer from Wichita, and get her child back.  The fact that this scumbag is a city employee amounts to a hill of beans if she (your daughter) is capable of raising the child herself.  With his past, it should be a cakewalk.  I'd say, from reading your sory, that the thing most likely keeping her from custody is the agreement she signed.  It could however, be argued that she signed it under duress.  City employees are nothing in the grand scheme of things... especially a lowly sanitation worker.  I was a city employee for years, and it never helped me a bit.
Get a decent lawyer, and fight!  And bring out the abuse and sex charges.  Don't give up because you think you are on the losing end.  You will always regret not fighting harder, but will never regret giving it your all, even if you lose.

I get really irritated when they talk about the "rights" of the offender. I saw on Tv where one state is getting special license plates so that if that person goes near a school they would know etc. BUT someone was saying that imposes on their rights.WHAT RIGHTS???to privacy so noone would know when they are lurking ,staring at,or lusting after a child? DISGUSTING.they should have NO right to be in the "unknown" if they have crossed the line and made themselves a known offender. Let me tell you. I use the sex offender site regularly and when I see one face to face in town and they look at my daughters....I MOVE my children from their view and shoot them a look .The "I KNOW YOU ARE A SICKO" look. It disgusts me that our little children are targets of a sick persons sex fantasies or whatever it is. Let me tell you a story. Last year I was in the local hardware store north end of town with my children. Two young daughters. We were walking around I noticed a man was always "staring" our way when I looked up. His eyes gave me the creeps. So I would go to another section of the store,and he followed with his erie STARE. I began to get really uncomfortable and grabbed the kids and left. Once in the car and waiting for kids to buckle their seatbelts a vehicle drove by slowly as I looked up to see it was HIM .He stared and drove on. I saw he was from Butler county...NOT Cowley .Then got three letters from tag only as he sped off. I came home to look up the offender site and searched Butler county and what did I see almost immedietly...those EERIE EYES looking back at me. I began to cry. It shook me up. THESE PERVERTS ROAM AROUND LOOKING .MAYBE WAITING TO GET A CHILD? It is sickening. I say look at the sites...and be vary aware of WHO is around you.