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Local NewsSex Offender Returns to NeighborhoodBy Shelley Walcott
OKAUCHEE - How would you feel if a convicted sex offender moved into your neighborhood?
Mother of two Lisa Steele says she feels only one thing: "Very scared."
Last month Steele and her Okauchee neighbors received a bulletin, warning them that an 18-year-old male sex offender had moved onto their street.
Jacob Rezutek was convicted of first and second degree sexual assault on two different girls. Rezutek grew up in this neighborhood, and Steele knows one of the girls who became his victim.
"I have two girls and just knowing that he's back in the area... and the potential is high for committing this crime again," Steele said.
She's not exaggerating.
According to the bulletin distributed to neighbors, Rezutek is considered someone with the "potential to reoffend." And he is not being monitored by any law enforcement officials. In addition, Rezutek's new apartment is less than two blocks from an elementary school.
Rezutek was not home when reporter Shelley Walcott knocked on his door. There is no law stipulating where sex offenders can live. But Steele, and others like her, insist offenders should not be allowed in areas with children, or near schools.
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