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| Inmate sex offender sends letter to school |
| By WCPO |
| Published: 05/23/2005 |
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Lebanon, Ohio, police say they have proof a sex offender tried to find a new way to get to children, even while locked up. A letter sent from the Lebanon Correctional Institute to the principal at Lebanon's Bowman Elementary may not look suspicious at first glance. But police say the more you read, the more scary it gets. When police and school leaders read it they were alarmed. In the letter the inmate says he has an idea to select a few children, who are lonely and unsure, to correspond with him. It's allegedly signed by Ronald Getz, an inmate who is sentenced to 20-years for rape. The inmate writes his idea is to, "select a few children, lonely, unsure children for the purpose of corresponding with me." "The problem here is one, he's a felon. Two, he's convicted of rape. Three he's currently incarcerated," said Officer Rob White, of the Lebanon police department. The letter continues, "I've made mistakes with kids in the past ... I deserve another chance. I know that I can touch children in a special way." "Know that I am smart enough to find other avenues to reach your children," the inmate states in his letter to the principal. The prison is investigating the incident, including trying to find out if he's really the one who wrote the letter. The principal who got the letter immediately took it to police and Lebanon's superintendent of schools. "I feel very uncomfortable for this guy to be writing our kids," said Bill Sears, superintendent of the Lebanon school district. "There were so many red flags from just the envelope itself -- coming from LCI to the content," said Sears. But the superintendent points out that you don't always have such blatant signs that someone's up to no good. "We need to be cautious all the time, especially when an adult requests to have contact with a kid -- whether it's in person or in writing," said Sears. "Even though they're incarcerated they have ways and means to get to our children," said Officer White. Police say writing the letter is not a violation of prison policy and they also say it could be used against an inmate when they're up for parole. |
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