Forensicwx
Final Roll Call 4153. STLCO 10-42 10/13 @ 1519
This story is just complete wtf?! Parents were notified, believed him, then let him babysit and take their kids to the woods?!?!
They found the fliers on their doors in December, bearing the stiff-jawed mug shot of the stranger in Apartment 211.
He was a sex predator, the fliers warned, freed a year earlier after spending nearly 15 in prison.
Michael Shepard told his new neighbors not to worry: It was a Romeo and Juliet affair that got him locked up; a preacher's daughter, her angry father.
Some parents at the Pinellas Park complex believed Shepard. Some even let him babysit.
Others noticed his shifting stories. They held their children more closely, made extra fliers.
They watched as Shepard rode with children on his scooter, gripping their small bodies on the way to the wooded "hideout." They watched him buy them McDonald's, ice cream, video games.
Shepard, 35, kept hidden what really sent him to prison: the three young boys and little girl he sought out and molested. And neighbors didn't know about the psychologists who debated whether he was so dangerous the state should keep him confined.
Now, less than 18 months since his release, Shepard faces 14 new charges of raping or assaulting at least seven children in one of the worst cases of its kind local police can recall.
Shepard manipulated his victims into sex acts, police say, often in front of other children. One girl was 5 years old.
LOTS more details about his disgusting past at link.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...econd-chance-now-faces-14-new-charges/2226172