Registered sex offender charged with child molestation at North Georgia School
Two children at a North Georgia school and church say they were molested by a construction worker on campus.
It turns out that man was a convicted sex offender, hired by a church leader who knew about his past.
Anthony Ray Stanley, 37 is behind bars charged with child molestation, deputies say he's a registered sex offender out of Whitfield County but somehow he was working construction at a school and church in Catoosa County, where he has now been accused of molesting two girls under the age of 10.
Catoosa County Sheriff, Gary Sisk is upset about the alleged sexual assault on 2 underage girls at Dogwood Christian Academy. He doesn't understand how a registered sex offender was allowed to work on the property.
"Little frustrated, again we try to do everything we can to make sure we don't put our children in harms way but there are times I guess or loopholes where sometimes that can happen and we entrust the adults around our children to try and watch after them as well," said Sheriff Gary Sisk, Catoosa County Sheriff's Dept.
Anthony Ray Stanley was convicted of child molestation in 2002. He served 5 years of a 15 year sentence and was released on parole. It was church member Roy Gentry who hired Stanley to do construction on school property.
He tells Channel 3, he met Stanley in prison while doing ministry work. He admitted to knowing about Stanley's past but said he truly believed he had changed and could be trusted. He also said the work on school property had been cleared by Stanley's parole officer but the state says that's not true.
"Absolutely not, he would have been advised that to work at either of those locations would have been prohibited and he was given instruction that he would not be allowed to work in those locations," said James Hill, Public Relations Officer for Georgia Dept. of Community Supervision. "Our officers have advised they at no point in time gave the okay toward this individual for Stanley to work at that location nor was the officer aware the subject was at that location." "The supervision in this case was appropriate and the subject was in compliance until he violated the conditions of his release and broke the law." said James Hill.
The two alleged victims told detectives Stanley touched and kissed one of them. Sisk says this is a good example of why background checks are needed at all schools.
"Ask those questions, don't be afraid to and our sex offender list is public information so we have a hard copy here at the Sheriff's Office or you can see it on our website, that was mandated by law for all Georgia Sheriffs offices so they are available for you," said Sheriff Sisk.
The Sheriff says anyone can have a free background check ran on themselves and then provide that paper work to their employer or anyone can come down and pay a fee to have a background check ran on someone else they are looking to hire. It's important to know that most background checks only check criminal records within the state that you live in. You should also ask authorities if the individual can be around children.
"You know now a days you just cant be sure, employers have got to run criminal histories," said Sheriff Sisk.
If you know someone is going to around children, there is a proper code that has to be entered into the search engine so authorities can search records nationwide.
Stanley is being held without bond in the Catoosa County Jail.
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I'm beginning to think permanent marking some of these offenders might be an answer.
And the one who hired him, he needs to be removed as well.
Look, I'm all for second chances. God can change people.
But there are just some things you don't do, and hiring a known child molester to work at a school/church is a big one.
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Well, there is a place called "Just for Jesus" and the "ministry" of this person is to house criminals, convicted sex offenders and so forth. He opens up shelters in the community very close to schools and playgrounds and there isn't a thing anyone can do about it. The "pastor" who is doing this isn't even a real minister with any ministerial training whatsoever.
Well, the church guy was trying to minister to and accept the guy and give him a second chance. Some would say he was doing the Christian thing, right?
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Well, the church guy was trying to minister to and accept the guy and give him a second chance. Some would say he was doing the Christian thing, right?
I am not so sure about that LL. You could say that. But, I also think there was some other motive. I think he was getting paid by the State to house them and so forth. Not that he shouldnt but he seemed to have no regard for the concerns of the community at all. I mean, he had no particular training to supposedly supervise these types of offenders. And, he wasn't even an ordained or actual trained minister.
Well, the church guy was trying to minister to and accept the guy and give him a second chance. Some would say he was doing the Christian thing, right?
I'm sure he meant well.
But it was reckless.
Like I'm said, I know God can change people.
This was a bad idea from the word go.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
God can change people. But, that doesn't absolve you of real world consequences. God can forgive and redeem. That doesn't however mean an offender should have access to children.
If it had been 10 or 15 years with out another incident, then maybe think about it.
But this guy should have never been there. Period.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Well, the church guy was trying to minister to and accept the guy and give him a second chance. Some would say he was doing the Christian thing, right?
I am not so sure about that LL. You could say that. But, I also think there was some other motive. I think he was getting paid by the State to house them and so forth. Not that he shouldnt but he seemed to have no regard for the concerns of the community at all. I mean, he had no particular training to supposedly supervise these types of offenders. And, he wasn't even an ordained or actual trained minister.
I was being a tad facetious. Being a loving Christian doesn't mean turning a blind eye to other people's sins when they can hurt others.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Well, the church guy was trying to minister to and accept the guy and give him a second chance. Some would say he was doing the Christian thing, right?
I am not so sure about that LL. You could say that. But, I also think there was some other motive. I think he was getting paid by the State to house them and so forth. Not that he shouldnt but he seemed to have no regard for the concerns of the community at all. I mean, he had no particular training to supposedly supervise these types of offenders. And, he wasn't even an ordained or actual trained minister.
I was being a tad facetious. Being a loving Christian doesn't mean turning a blind eye to other people's sins when they can hurt others.
I know. I understood your point. But, that is exactly what some would say though.
Well, the church guy was trying to minister to and accept the guy and give him a second chance. Some would say he was doing the Christian thing, right?
- Lawyerlady
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Yes, and no.
Accept and give a second chance to be a good person. But the pastor forgot that his job was not to lead into into temptation, but to deliver him from evil.
You don't have a sex offender work around kids. You just don't. Hire him to fix the leaky roof of the church, when there are no kids present. Or get him a job at a construction site where it's all tough guys doing tough work.
Children have an innocence that must be protected.
Well, the church guy was trying to minister to and accept the guy and give him a second chance. Some would say he was doing the Christian thing, right? - Lawyerlady
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Yes, and no.
Accept and give a second chance to be a good person. But the pastor forgot that his job was not to lead into into temptation, but to deliver him from evil.
You don't have a sex offender work around kids. You just don't. Hire him to fix the leaky roof of the church, when there are no kids present. Or get him a job at a construction site where it's all tough guys doing tough work.
Children have an innocence that must be protected.
all of this
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