John Mark Karr's Neighbors Want Him Out

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Ex-JonBenet Ramsey Suspect Moves In With Father, Near An Atlanta Playground

(CBS/AP) An Atlanta neighborhood association continues to discuss residents' concerns about the man who briefly was a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey and is now living in the community.

Living about a mile from a playground, John Mark Karr makes many parents uneasy, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann.

"I was shocked and very disappointed that he's not behind bars," said Kelly Seagraves, the mother of a 6-year-old.
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Um, well, that may be because he's never been convicted of anything.

After Karr's release from a California jail on Oct. 5, he said he intended to live with his father in Atlanta and possibly a return to teaching.

"I've been here 55 years. I've got a right to stay here," Wexford Karr told a local reporter, adding that his son is welcome to stay with him as long as he wants.

Karr has not been convicted of any crime that would require him to register as a sex offender or restrict where he can live or work.

"There's nothing legally we can do to get him out of our neighborhood and I don't know how much pressure the civic association and security can do about him," Gillian Sherbourne, the mother of three girls, tells WGCL. "All I know is it completely freaks me out."
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Whether anyone likes it or not, if they do anything illegal to him, I hope they get prosecuted and sentenced just like anyone else would. The last time I checked, we live in a country where people are still innocent until proven guilty. Oh, I forgot, Bush and his rubber-stampers changed that! Maybe these people can get Bush to declare him an enemy combatant and ship him to Guantanamo?
 
I am continually shocked to hear this common refrain about Karr. They all wonder why he's not in jail. Let them legislate creepiness into criminality. I'd like to read that bill.
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15066202/

So this isn't creepy either?

O.J. Simpson is confessing. Hypothetically, that is.

The former football great, who was acquitted in criminal court 11 years ago of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, reportedly has been paid a whopping $3.5 million to write about the double murder that shocked and riveted the nation in 1994, according to a detailed report in the new National Enquirer.

But Simpson is not actually confessing to the murder — rather, he’s writing a “hypothetical” book — which the Enquirer reports is tentatively being called “If I Did It.”
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Hagrok said:
Man, creepy indeed, but that's gonna sell like hot cakes.

Of course, how well do hot cakes sell, really?
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So, would you want to live next door to OJ?

It's the same scenerio. Neither have been convicted, both have confessed (but not really), and both are known to the national media. It has the potential to be a circus.

Besides, in Karr's case, the reason he is not behind bars at this point is because the computer siezed from him (containing child porn) disappeared. That's not guilty by a technicality. Does that change the argument?
 
wastepanel said:
So, would you want to live next door to OJ?

It's the same scenerio. Neither have been convicted, both have confessed (but not really), and both are known to the national media. It has the potential to be a circus.

Besides, in Karr's case, the reason he is not behind bars at this point is because the computer siezed from him (containing child porn) disappeared. That's not guilty by a technicality. Does that change the argument?
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I don't call that "not guilty by a technicality." The evidence never made it into court in the first place. We only have the police saying what it was. The judge wouldn't let it go to trial. Is he a pedophile? Beats me. Would I be wary if he lived next to me? Yes. But it doesn't change the argument.

For an example of what I call "not guilty by a technicality," look to Oliver North. He was convicted in a trial by a jury. Then it was overturned because an appellate court said that the immunity granted him by Congress for the Iran-Contra hearings extended to the case in which he was convicted.
 
wastepanel said:
So, would you want to live next door to OJ?
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*shrug* why not? We've never been married, as far as I can remember, nor have I dated any of his ex's.

Hell, I've had to call the cops on the folks across the street before for domestic violence, I don't know why OJ would be much different. People are people, famous or not. It's highly likely that any neigborhood has its unsavory elements.
 
shemp said:
Ex-JonBenet Ramsey Suspect Moves In With Father, Near An Atlanta Playground



Um, well, that may be because he's never been convicted of anything.



Whether anyone likes it or not, if they do anything illegal to him, I hope they get prosecuted and sentenced just like anyone else would. The last time I checked, we live in a country where people are still innocent until proven guilty. Oh, I forgot, Bush and his rubber-stampers changed that! Maybe these people can get Bush to declare him an enemy combatant and ship him to Guantanamo?
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So, if I don't like my Chinese neighbor next door, and want him out, do I get what I want? I am afraid he will kidnap and butcher my dog to serve for his annual Chinese New Year feast.

Minority Report for fifty, Alex. :p

How is Mr Karr, who seems to me an attention whore and perhaps a pervert --somehow not to be left alone to live with his dad? If the neighbors are concerned with Mr Karr preying on their children, a very modest investment can be made in a surveillance camera for the playground. Merely having it there, and working, can serve as a fine deterrent. And evidence. There may be any number of perverts in the neighborhood that the neighbors don't know about. The camera might help deter them as well.

Mr Karr may or may not be a threat to the kids in the neighborhood. He is, however, his father's son, and as such it offends me that these people forget that even strange people who draw attention to themselves have families too.

DR
 
Or they could try, you know, watching their kids or something.

Unless they really want to bank on there only being one potential child molester in existence, and that if he were in jail everything would be perfectly safe.
 
hgc said:
I am continually shocked to hear this common refrain about Karr. They all wonder why he's not in jail. Let them legislate creepiness into criminality. I'd like to read that bill.
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It's soccer parents. They are creepy paranoid about the safety and security of their little Jasons and Dakotas.

Why doesn't everyone else recognize that nothing is more important than Jason and Dakota Jones?

AS
 
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