Rabbi Will McCubbins, China Grove, N.C.
♦ It was just a few years back when Salisbury was 2nd only to Dade County Florida in per capita sexual offenders. Not a week goes by when a sexual offender is picked up in Salisbury for failing to report his or her current address. Over the last 10 days or so there was a massive Facebook sharing of the RFP article on Ronnie Paul Godbey, a sexual predator who co-owned Sweet Pea’s Consignment Shop in Salisbury and now is doing time in the can for allegedly manipulating sex with a 9 year-old child all the way into her teens. Many people in Salisbury and the county are incensed and rightfully so that he got an extra light sentence from a plea bargain. Godbey is due to be let loose on society in May and families are warning each other in advance.
When it comes to registered sexual offenders its easy to notice most are repeat performers and they often don’t bother reporting their address changes when they skip and start their predatory sexual hunts in a new locale. These creeps show-up all-too-often in the news especially in crime plagued Salisbury.
Here is one of many registered sex offender maps of Salisbury demonstrating the Bury is swarming with sexual predators. Besides these known registered sex offenders, realize that many other unregistered and yet to be caught deviants with uncontrollable urges are lurking in the community.
http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Salisbury-North-Carolina.html
What can be done about the registered and yet to be caught sexual offenders? Here’s a valuable and informative PDF. put out by North Carolina’s Attorney General Roy Cooper and the NCDOJ:
N.C. REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM GUIDEBOOK
