Waterville, Maine (The Weekly Vice) -- Leroy J. Fuller, a 66 year old registered sex offender has been arrested after molesting a child in a thrift store. But this isn't the first time he's sexually assaulted children. It's not the second time either. Fuller keeps right on fondling and assaulting while Maine keeps setting him free.
Fuller was arrested Monday night after he allegedly groped a 6 year old girl who was on a shopping trip with her family at a Ken-A-Set thrift store. He has been charged with unlawful sexual contact according to arresting officer Sgt. Jeffrey Bearce.
"The 6-year-old related to me that she was in the toy section and an elderly gentleman gave her a stuffed toy and talked to her and then grabbed her in the private area," Bearce said.
According to police, Fuller walked away and then returned a short time later and repeated the act on the child. The girl then told her sister what had happened, who told their father.
"Dad ran out of the store and brought him back into the building," Bearce said. "When I came, the elderly gentleman was sitting in a chair. The young girl pointed to the elderly gentleman who was sitting in the chair. I proceeded to interview him."
Fuller was booked into the Kennebec County Jail where he was ordered held on a $50,000 bond.
The Weekly Vice Opinion:
What is perhaps more alarming than the act itself is the extensive history of convictions, several of them sexual assaults, that this man has committed. Yet he's still walking around molesting 6 year old girls.
The state of Maine, who rejected Jessica's Law in lieu of a weaker variation of it is among the weakest in the nation regarding child sex law. Not so much with the police departments, who are trying to get these pedophiles off the street. It's the judges who keep suspending the sentences and letting perverts like Fuller walk right back out of jail.
Fuller was convicted of gross sexual assault in 1980, as well as sexual misconduct with a child and visual sexual aggression against a child in 2004.
Three convictions under two judges who didn't think molesting a child and exposing himself to another child was worth jail time.
The second item of interest is the complete lack of press coverage in Maine on this topic. A search of Fuller's exploits turned up very little local coverage of this story outside of Fuller's Sex Offender Listing.
It's darn hard to make the judges care about repeat pedo offenders like Fuller if the local community in Maine can hardly be roused long enough to research cases like this.
All we can say is this. It truly sucks to be a kid in Maine.
Danny Vice
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