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Daycare/Sex Offender Proximity
The state of Colorado is one of 29 states that does not have a law regarding how close a registered sex offender can live to potential victims, such as day care centers. This lack of a "proximity" law led KDVR to investigate just how many sex offenders - specifically pedophiles - were living near child care facilities. They discovered that of about 4,500 sex offenders in Colorado, 64 percent were within 1,500 feet of a day care facility, with many of that 64 percent being pedophiles. There was one situation where a sex offender was living in the same home as a day care owner, who had their license revoked as a result of the investigation.
Tags: Sex offenders; pedophilia; proximity law; Colorado; Department of Human Services; day care centers
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Close Proximity
KIRO-TV used mapping software to prove that more than 600 registered sex offenders in Washington state are living within one city block of a licensed daycare, a state law violation. The reporters found an entire household of pedophiles living two doors away from a daycare. The state knew of this situation, but kept it a secret. KIRO-TV cameras also captured a known child molester living at the same address as a licensed home daycare facility.
Tags: mapping software; registered sex offenders; licensed daycare centers; Department of Corrections felony database; Washington State Department of Social and Health Services database; Washington State Patrol database of registered sex offenders.
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The Dangers of Daycare
The story exposes the fact that day-care centers responsible for tens of thousands of Ohio children routinely keep their state licenses despite repeated violations of state laws designed to protect children. State inspections of 615 licensed day-care centers in Franklin and surrounding counties found that 59% of day-care centers failed to run a criminal background check on workers, 39% of the centers were understaffed, 22% did not post their state-inspection reports, 51% of the centers had conditions that were unsafe for children, and 56% of the centers hired staff or administrators who were unqualified.
Tags: day-care; criminal background check; Ohio Department of Job and Family Services; violations; Action for Children; Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children; United Way; inspectors; Children's World Learning Center; license revocation
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Who's watching your kids
WFMY visits ten elementary schools and two day-care centers to see if just anyone can walk into a building and have access to children. In seven, cases, reporters were granted access to classrooms, hallways and bathrooms. One of the two day-care facilities let a complete stranger pick up a child. The station then worked with the state licensing office to raise awareness for parents and other daycares in the area.
Tags: TAPE Hidden Camera
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No place like home?
This ABC News Prime Time Live report revealed that more children under the age of 5 are being cared for by family home providers than by daycare centers or by their own parents.This is an industry that has grown in the past few years, but is virtually unregulated. Statistics indicate that children in home care are at higher risk for neglect and physical abuse than in daycare settings.
Tags: VIDEOCLIP; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT Licenses Government Parents Against Child Abuse Neglect Caregivers Felons Manslaughter FOIA
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver) finds children in day care suffered broken bones, burns and sexual abuses because they were not properly supervised; reveals a third of the state's day-care centers are understaffed; also reveals that some centers have not been inspected for three years because the state licensing staff does not have enough inspectors, June 26 - 28, 1988.
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