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ESCO: Sex Offender Failed To Register For Five Years
October 4, 2023
An Escambia County sex offender was arrested after failing to register in the last five years.
Lonnie Paul Rowland, 68, was charged with seven felony sex offender violations for failing to register as required and with a probation violation in a 2017 failure to register case. .
According to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Rowland was required to register twice per year with the Florida Sex Offender Database, but the last time he did was in November 2018. Deputies said he missed seven required registration dates.
Rowland was convicted of sexual battery in Indiana in 2013 and first registered in Florida in December 2017.
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7 Responses to “ESCO: Sex Offender Failed To Register For Five Years”
Not a rare occurrence. I had a man stalk and harass me for years. Turns out he was unregistered the entire time. Police were no help at all. He lived on a corner that was bus and school bus stops. He had cameras etc. Dealt drugs from bar across street. Was told he never had Id on him and girlfriend would lie. Story they were married from another state. Check offender list most are homeless no address etc.
@Grady Smith
Despite what anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists tell us, long term subcutaneous tracking devices don’t exist.
Personally though, I think that allowing the government to force prisoners to undergo invasive surgeries against their will as a punishment for a crime (no matter how heinous) would be a dangerous precedent.
Why not place a tracking chip in the subject’s person?
Technology would allow these individuals to be tracked 24/7. A huge amount of bureaucary/manhours could be reduced/saved. Proximity alerts could indicate if a subject is near a school or daycare, or if they leave their residence.
Human error ; probably rare occurrence .
An online search shows a sex offender living down the street next door to a daycare.
This makes me wonder how many other unreported cases there have been during that five years. Hopefully none, but we may not ever hear of it, for many victims will carry a load of guilt for a lifetime believing that whatever took place was somehow their fault.
5 years! A failure of our so called justice system in keeping the public safe. No further comment.