Here we have a man James E.Walker, convicted sexual offender raped a minor again in Centennial Park back in 2007. James Walker is now a convicted sex predator after the rape of this boy. Holly Hill allows sexual offenders in their parks. Mark Barker of the Police Department stating that sex crimes in Holly Hill Parks are common. They had made 9 arrests already that year. Fast forward November 2011 and Holly Hill is having a sex crime sting in Ross Point. Four years later and the City of Holly Hill has not stopped allowing sexual offenders in our parks?
What is wrong with this picture? Daytona Beach has strict sexual offender/predator laws and do not allow drug rehab businesses like AA to set up shop in their parks.Why is the City of Holly Hill so laid back about protecting the citizens and allowing pedophiles and sex predators in our parks?
Denise-marie Balona
Sentinel Staff Writer
November 10, 2007
A registered sex offender is back in jail after Holly Hill police charged him with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in a park restroom Friday.
Police said the boy missed the bus and was walking to Mainland High School in nearby Daytona Beach when he stopped at Centennial Park about 8 a.m. to use the bathroom.
The boy had just sat down in a stall when police said James E. Walker, 38, of Holly Hill, slid underneath.
Walker pinned the youth to the wall, performed a sex act on him and then fled, said Cmdr. Mark Barker of the Holly Hill Police Department.
The boy, who was otherwise uninjured, alerted a groundskeeper at the lakefront park on 10th Street. Authorities said a police officer found Walker in the parking lot of his apartment complex about a half-mile away.
Parks in Holly Hill are not off-limits to sex offenders, only sexual predators, who have committed more violent crimes and can’t live near parks.
Walker got out of prison in April after serving less than half of a 15-year sentence for lewd and lascivious assault on a child under age 16, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
In 1996, he was among the Volusia County men who were the focus of a six-month Orlando Sentinel investigation of pedophiles in the Daytona area.
Walker was able to leave prison early in part because the laws in effect at the time of his offense allowed him to earn considerably more time off his sentence for good behavior, said Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections.
Today, prisoners cannot work off more than 15 percent of their jail time, she said.
Walker also has been arrested on drug charges in Bay County, in Florida’s Panhandle.
Barker said sex crimes in parks aren’t unusual. Police made nine arrests this year.
Walker is being held without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail on charges of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 16, exposure of sexual organs, false imprisonment, simple battery and resisting arrest with violence.
http://florida-issues.blogspot.com/2007/11/holly-hill-man-charged-in-sex-assault.html
Another article about it-
Sex Offender Accused Of Assaulting Boy In Bathroom
HOLLY HILL, Fla. — November 10th 2007
“Mr. Walker represents truly the worst of the worst,” said Mark Barker, Holly Hill Police Department.
Police collected evidence from the scene Friday where they say the registered sex offender attacked a 15-year-old boy. The teen was on his way to school, stopped to use the bathroom and investigators said Walker climbed up underneath the door of the stall. Once in the stall, police said, Walker struggled with the boy and held him against the wall while he touched himself.
After the attack, the boy found a park employee who called police.
“I can’t begin to tell you the level of frustration that I and my officers feel on the heels of this incident,” Barker said.
Police immediately spread out to look for the suspect and a sergeant noticed Walker at a nearby intersection. As soon as he stopped to try to talk to Walker, he ran. The officer tried to stop him with a taser, but missed the shot. He ended up catching Walker in the back parking lot of the apartment building where Walker lived.
Only out of prison for seven months, Walker faces five charges now that could put him back behind bars.
“I was never in no bathroom,” Walker insisted.
The news is already spurring calls for a change in Holly Hill. The mayor told Eyewitness News he will suggest changing all public bathrooms to single rooms with locking doors to prevent similar incidents.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/sex-offender-accused-of-assaulting-boy-in-bathroom/nD9mp/
POLICE CITE MEN IN HOLLY HILL BATHROOM SEX STING
This has been going on in Holly Hill Parks for years,including Sunrise Park that is still listed online as a place for men to hook-up.
http://www.cruisinggays.com/Holly-Hill/Cruising-Areas/17476-Sunrise-Park/
They even mention the bathrooms at Sunrise Park.Holly Hill PD need to do more to stop this.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/crime/2011/11/19/six-men-were-rounded-up.html
Ever wonder why you can’t find a parking space at Centennial Park in Holly Hill Florida every Saturday night?
It’s because the Daytona beach NA group, Third Tradition, doesn’t follow N/A’s seventh tradition and rent a room with the money they collect at their meetings. Instead they take over the park for business every Saturday night as advertised and refuse to pay rent. They do this in Holly Hill because people can’t run weekly meetings out of Daytona, Ormond or Volusia County parks.
Go to Centennial Park on any Saturday night between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. and look at the huge NA meeting that takes over the pavilion next to the playground while kids are running all over the place.
Here is a local story about problems in the park that Daytona Beach AA\NA would like to keep secret.
Holly Hill OKs $100K for former manager’s severance
By Chris Graham
STAFF WRITER
Published: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
HOLLY HILL — City commissioners agreed Tuesday night to a settlement deal with the former city manager.
With little debate, the commission unanimously passed a resolution to pay a $100,000 severance package plus applicable taxes to former city manager Oel Wingo, who was fired in 2010 amid accusations she illegally destroyed government documents and tried to secure benefits for herself.
The city later filed an ethics complaint with the state but the claim was dismissed by a judge.
City Attorney Scott Simpson said after the ethics complaint was dropped Wingo became entitled to severance. The monetary amount represents six months of severance, said City Manager Jim McCroskey.
At issue were employment agreements Wingo asked city department heads to sign in July 2010. They allowed department heads to resign and collect four months of pay and benefits if their pay was reduced by a greater percentage than across-the-board cuts for other city employees.
The agreements first presented in July were originally dated May, based on an earlier agreement with the public works director, but eventually were replaced by updated versions. Wingo ordered the May-dated documents destroyed.
Wingo was fired hours after Mayor Roy Johnson and Commissioner Donnie Moore were sworn into office in 2010.
Johnson said earlier this week he doesn’t believe the city handled the situation properly, but firing Wingo helped the town move on.
“We went forward from there,” he said. “We wouldn’t have gained what we have today.”
In other business Tuesday night, commissioners:
— Approved a resolution to appropriate $25,000 to remodel the city’s Community Resource Center. The building, which once housed limited county library services, will now be used to house some of the city’s administrative services. — Approved an agreement with the city’s general employees union that will include a 3 percent increase in wages for all general city employees. The wage will be effective Oct. 1, 2013.
— Recognized Police Chief Mark Barker for 30 years with the Police Department. Barker was first hired in 1983 and appointed to the position of chief in 2009.
— Were introduced to new Fire Chief James Bland, who was previously the fire chief for Daytona Beach. Bland is replacing Ron Spencer, who is retiring later this month.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130409/NEWS/304099947?p=all&tc=pgall
Why don’t these Daytona AA/NA groups conduct their business in Daytona or Ormond Beach parks? They come to Holly Hill parks because know that they can get away with things that they would never get away with elsewhere!
Most groups take the money they collect at meetings and use it to pay for an appropriate place to conduct this business. These groups, that refuse to follow their 7th tradition and pay their way, put our children knowingly at risk by attracting large numbers of high risk court mandates straight from jail into our parks/playgrounds.
They are enjoying a free ride for a place to conduct business where they can chain smoke all meeting long. They have made it clear that they do not care what the local community’s safety concerns are!
Community members who have been threatened have found that even the group’s sponsors and chairpersons will not cooperate with police to identify the perpetrators!
These people are used to getting away with whatever they want and have an incredible sense of entitlement. This is understandably so as they have been enabled and emboldened to feel above the law. When abusive and criminal behavior occurs at meetings, the organizations chairpersons and sponsors have demonstrated that they will cover up the incident at all costs to protect the group’s image and reputation. It’s like dealing with a legal gang that knows they can get away with whatever they want.
HOW DOES THIS SUPPORT THE GOAL OF REAL RECOVERY, BALANCING THE REINTRODUCTION OF FELONS INTO SOCIETY WITH PUBLIC SAFETY?
This is outrageous! Narcotics Anonymous Daytona have large meetings with felons at this Holly Hill Centennial Park where an NA member raped a 15 year old as the article states. There is a playground at Centennial Park real close to the Pavilion they meet at.This makes me sick.Why don’t they put the welfare of innocent children before parolee’s with long violent criminal and sex crime backgrounds?
Here is a portion of a description written for probation officers of sexual offenders. In part it states for the parole officer to stay in touch with the sex offenders AA sponsor! Most Americans are unaware that sex offenders of all levels are mandated to AA/NA when drugs or alcohol is suspected to be involved in their crimes.Yet many parents insist there kids go to AA/NA having no idea that the court systems are sending sex predators to AA/NA as part of a standard practice.This needs to stop!
Minimum Standards of Supervision
Throughout the course of the offender’s supervision, supervising agents must, at a minimum, be able to:
check an offender’s residence and place of employment;
maintain contact with the offender’s therapist, employers, family members, friends, and other community members, including victims;
establish and maintain contact with an offender’s associates, significant others, employers, Alcoholics Anonymous sponsors, and others to ensure that they are aware of the offender’s history and risk factors; and
continue to monitor the offender’s adherence to the conditions of supervision–which likely will include ensuring that the offender has no access to potential victims, is not in possession of pornography or using the Internet, drugs, or alcohol, and that he is employed and living at an approved residence.
The level of supervision should never be so low as to exclude routine field visits to monitor an offender’s behavior in the community.
Holly Hill PD,I think you have some work to do! Holly Hill crime rate up 20% from last year. No wonder with them ignoring and discouraging the public and businesses from making Holly Hill safer. Geez they even pulled out security camera signs in the park after NA members complained. NA members removed them too. So much for it being safer now! Cant say the public did not try and beg Holly Hill PD to keep us safer. After the security signs were removed Sunrise Park had four car break-ins,drug dealing,vandalism and assaults. Holly Hill was up 20% when the state of Florida was down 2% and the County was at 0%. Something is terribly wrong in our police department in Holly Hill.
Crime in Holly Hill up 20.1 percent
SEMI-ANNUAL CRIME STATS
FDLE releases semi-annual crime data
November 10, 2011|By Dana Williams, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The number of serious crimes in Holly Hill was up 20.1 percent during the first six months of 2011 when compared with the same time period last year, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Crimes included in the report are murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft.
From January through June 2011, a total of 437 crimes were reported in Holly Hill, compared with 364 from January through June 2010.
For the first six months, Holly Hill reported:
Murder: 1 in 2011; 0 in 2010;
Forcible rape: 4 in 2011; 3 in 2010;
Robbery: 17 in 2011; 14 in 2010;
Aggravated Assault: 28 in 2011; 38 in 2010;
Burglary: 100 in 2011; 86 in 2010;
Larceny: 249 in 2011; 184 in 2010;
Motor Vehicle theft: 38 in 2011; 39 in 2010;
Statewide, overall crime was down 2 percent. Countywide, crime was up 0 percent during the first six months of the year. Volusia County reported 12 murders, 63 rapes, 229 robberies, 936 aggravated assaults, 2,265 burglaries, 6,137 larcenies and 555 motor vehicle thefts.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-11-10/news/sfl-sse11fdle-holly-hill-crime-stats-semi-annual-20111110_1_holly-hill-number-of-serious-crimes-fdle
The writing is on the wall. Who in your government is in bed with NA or AA. As an insider I smell a rat. I know a guy who was a Police Chief in Hawaii. He had 30 years in AA.
AA has turned into a piece of sh*t! Run like the wind. Fight for your safety. See the truth on the http://www.orange-papers.org about AA. http://www.stop13stepinaa.wordpress.com for more horror stories.
The sickness in NA and AA are deep.
A few years back a woman called the NA hotline for help. The man on the end of the phone went to her house and RAPED HER!
This is a fact from an insider in NA. At that point NA changed their service structure and tried to address their inside problem. Get some balls 12 step culture . WE are a coming! And we will make you accountable. From top to bottom.
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