Mercer worries that the future of her registered home day care could be in jeopardy because Kevin Stanley-- a convicted sex offender-- moved into the home across the street in June.
Court records show Stanley was forced to move out of his former home in St. Albans as a probation condition after he was convicted of exposing himself to two neighborhood children and peeping into the windows of a teenage girl next door.
So Mercer was shocked when she learned Stanley had the permission of his probation officer to move into her neighborhood. She says the probation officer told her he drove through the neighborhood and saw little sign of any children, but she wonders how he could have missed the play sets behind almost every home, and state websites that show 40 school kids reside here and there are two home day cares services including hers.
"I have to have fire extinguishers; I have to have a number of exits; I have to have a certain training: all these things to keep the children safe. And then they don't keep me or the children safe by allowing somebody to move across the street like that," Mercer said.
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