Sex offender left city and doesn’t present a danger
November 10, 2009
By J.B. Wogan
By J.B. Wogan
Police say parents don’t have to worry about recent rumors about a “noncompliant” sex offender looming near Sunny Hills Elementary School. They know where he is and they don’t believe there’s any cause for alarm.
An Oct. 29 newsletter from Sunny Hills addressed rumors of a “noncompliant” sex offender living near the school.
Sunny Hills Principal Sarah White said she decided to go ahead with putting a message in the school’s online newsletter because the school had fielded a handful of phone calls and in-person questions from parents about Timothy Dorris, a 20-year-old who was found guilty of rape of a child in the first degree in 2002.
Dorris’ online profile on the state’s sex offender registry showed that he was “noncompliant,” which could have meant he was off the police’s radar and hadn’t been checking in with authorities.
White said rumors began spreading Oct. 21, and parents had been concerned that the school wasn’t aware of the sex offender and wasn’t educating other parents of a possible danger, White said.
But when White checked with police, they told her it probably meant Dorris wasn’t living near Sunny Hills anymore.
Sgt. John Urquhart, a spokesman for the King County Sheriff’s Office, said the “noncompliant” status is misleading and the result of a paperwork error.
“We are well aware of him. We know where he is. We’ve talked to him,” Urquhart said. He added that Dorris had moved to Redmond, even though the state’s online sex offender registry didn’t show it yet.
Reporter J.B. Wogan can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 247, or jbwogan@isspress.com. To comment on this story, visit www.SammamishReview.com.
Police say parents don’t have to worry about recent rumors about a “noncompliant” sex offender looming near Sunny Hills Elementary School. They know where he is and they don’t believe there’s any cause for alarm.
An Oct. 29 newsletter from Sunny Hills addressed rumors of a “noncompliant” sex offender living near the school.
Sunny Hills Principal Sarah White said she decided to go ahead with putting a message in the school’s online newsletter because the school had fielded a handful of phone calls and in-person questions from parents about Timothy Dorris, a 20-year-old who was found guilty of rape of a child in the first degree in 2002.
Dorris’ online profile on the state’s sex offender registry showed that he was “noncompliant,” which could have meant he was off the police’s radar and hadn’t been checking in with authorities.
White said rumors began spreading Oct. 21, and parents had been concerned that the school wasn’t aware of the sex offender and wasn’t educating other parents of a possible danger, White said.
But when White checked with police, they told her it probably meant Dorris wasn’t living near Sunny Hills anymore.
Sgt. John Urquhart, a spokesman for the King County Sheriff’s Office, said the “noncompliant” status is misleading and the result of a paperwork error.
“We are well aware of him. We know where he is. We’ve talked to him,” Urquhart said. He added that Dorris had moved to Redmond, even though the state’s online sex offender registry didn’t show it yet.
Reporter J.B. Wogan can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 247, or jbwogan@isspress.com.
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Just like the seventy’s when the seat belt law came out so did the over the shoulder strap and the flag was raised to create probable cause and the car could be pulled over, the citizens inside could be quizzed and revenue created. It did not save lives at all. Check the numbers. The number of cars in relation to cars on the road as related to the number of traffic deaths are not what they say and the overall long term advantage is not in the interest of the change in law bandaid but the effect of the revenue is proof to my statement. Drivers are not all the same and you don’t find seat belts in limos. The rich have sex scandals and the poor get raped is an equivalent were the money is funneled. Well here we go again! You can not prove the sex offender registry has keep one child safe yet we can prove the sex offender registry is in direct relationship to the death of innocent people, putting us to mind of scenes from Casablanca
People who are so obsessed with any sex they can find/unearth & the only way to deal with this kind of “hierarchy” of historic hysteria. A word taken from hysterectomy, hysteria is tied to castration used to make animals less threatening which clearly explains the atmosphere we have made for ourselves.
Anyway we are supposed to be an advanced nation and we still have a death penalty when the rest of the world except for some nations we are still warring with/selling weapons too. Our weapons dealers/torture lovers delighting in support for the death of people they don’t know or want to simply because they don’t know how to get money for telling them how to live or taking it from someone by force. Is that supposed to include mutilations? In my humble opinion that alone is a terrorist activity as much as severed hands, ears, heads, or making a case with nothing more than an obsession justified by a self inflicted wound?
People the worthlessness of the use of it and Pink Triangles has been proved so many times. The concepts are the same and in tell we get a handle on the business of Washington we better think. Getting a ticket for fishing just adds to ones starving more.