LEWISBURG, Ore. (AP) — Residents in the Benton County town Lewisburg are expressing their unhappiness about having three sex offenders nearby in a residential treatment facility for mentally ill people.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports (http://bit.ly/qXt6Za ) that about 100 turned out Thursday for a meeting with officials. Residents said they didn’t go away with their worries eased.
Benton County Sheriff Diana Simpson says that one of the three is an 88-year-old man whose record goes back seven decades and who was accused in 2005 of sexually assaulting and trying to strangle a woman.
Neighbors say they’re fearful — a 66-year-old woman who lives a few blocks away says she’s given up her daily walks.
