The Florida village where half the residents are sex offenders.

[the next guy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23063492
A minute ago it was an approaching rain squall that was distracting Pat Powers.

“We’d better get to the house if you don’t want to drown,” he says. But then something else catches his eye – a white saloon car turning off the highway. Reflexively he is alert to peril, like a rabbit watching a passing fox. In his trouser pocket, his phone begins to buzz.

Things work a bit differently here at Miracle Village, a collection of squat yellow bungalows deep in Florida’s sugar cane country south of Lake Okeechobee – because they have to. More than half the residents are convicted sex offenders, many of them recently released from prison and still on probation.


@Serious @88m3

 

[88m3]

disgraceful

 

[Spoonz]

that's some crazy shyt...

 

[Lana Kane]

Florida..

 

[tru_m.a.c]

ur link may be down @the next guy

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/31/welcome-miracle-village-fla-community-where-half-r/

 

[88m3]

Jerry Youmans, the intake coordinator for the ministry who is also a registered sex offender, told the BBC that the village does not allow offenders who are convicted of violent sex crimes against strangers.

So violent sex crimes against non-strangers/relatives is O.K. then?

Aren't all sex crimes violent?

 

[the next guy]

ur link may be down @the next guy

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/31/welcome-miracle-village-fla-community-where-half-r/

props.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

For the men inside the village, it was. Mostly they express gratitude at being here, mixed with anger at the system. “It’s difficult when you do the amount of time they give you and you have always admitted what you did, and then you get out finally only to find out there are still more stipulations,” says Lee White, 31, taking a break from strimming weeds on the grounds of the village. He recently arrived after spending 13 years behind bars for attempted sexual battery with a minor under 12. Luis Santiago, 29, who was convicted of the same crime, says: “You do the crime, you do the time. Yet, I still have to face the internet for the rest of my life.”

“It was an odd dynamic,” says Stoffel, who taught music at a private school in West Palm Beach when, at 29, he met an under-age boy while rehearsing for an amateur musical. They had sex and the boy’s father threatened to report him. He didn’t have to. Stoffel resigned and enrolled at a Tennessee retreat that offered to “cure” his homosexuality. When he realised that was hopeless, he confessed to the Florida authorities and was immediately charged.

nikkaaaaaaa...its like I'm reading a Law and Order SVU episode

 

[88m3]

props.

I don't think I want to understand the south anymore. The people who live in the south must be expunged.

 

[the next guy]

I don't think I want to understand the south anymore. The people who live in the south must be expunged.

its outrageous. this is probably religious.

 

[Spoonz]

Someone needs to write a book about this...

 

[theworldismine13]

florida needs its own sub-forum

 

[the cac mamba]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23063492
A minute ago it was an approaching rain squall that was distracting Pat Powers.

“We’d better get to the house if you don’t want to drown,” he says. But then something else catches his eye – a white saloon car turning off the highway. Reflexively he is alert to peril, like a rabbit watching a passing fox. In his trouser pocket, his phone begins to buzz.

Things work a bit differently here at Miracle Village, a collection of squat yellow bungalows deep in Florida’s sugar cane country south of Lake Okeechobee – because they have to. More than half the residents are convicted sex offenders, many of them recently released from prison and still on probation.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

God forgives.