Elton P. Croft who has done 9 years in prison as a pedophile, and is a level 3 sexual predator, was on probation when he broke into 2 a homes in Jacksonville, Florida. He had drug paraphernalia and marijuana on him when the police arrested him. These are the type of people sent to the same AA and NA meetings as children and teenagers!
While you were sleeping: Sex Predator broke into 2 women’s Beaches apartments, police say
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Submitted by Clifford Davis on May 1, 2012 – 5:37amClifford Davis’s Blog
An Atlantic Beach woman was in her bedroom on Beach Avenue Sunday night when she turned and saw a man she didn’t know standing in the room with her.
“Who are you?” the woman screamed. “I’m Bob,” he said. But his name wasn’t Bob.
According to police it was 35-year-old Elton Paul Croft, a registered sexual predator. The suspect immediately fled the home and the victim was able to call police and give them a description.
About 10:30 p.m., roughly 30 minutes after the first incident, police were dispatched to a robbery in progress just a few blocks away on Ocean Boulevard, according to the report from the Atlantic Beach Police Department.
Read the police reports for both incidents
The second victim was also in her bedroom. She thought she heard a noise coming from her window but found nothing when she checked it, according to the report. She then heard a noise coming from the living room and, thinking it was her roommate, called out to her.Instead she saw a man run out of her living room toward the kitchen.
The woman locked herself in the bedroom, called police and also gave them a description.Officers arrived and spotted Croft, who matched the description given by both victims, coming out of the breezeway outside the second victim’s apartment.
He tried to flee on a bicycle but fell when police ordered him to stop, cutting his nose and upper lip when he fell on the concrete sidewalk, according to the report. The officers then took him to the ground.However, Croft continued to resist and an officer deployed her Taser to his lower back.
After he was taken into custody, police found three condoms, three pairs of women’s panties and six AA batteries in the pocket of his shorts, according to the report. In a compartment on Croft’s bicycle, police found three sexual devices, about a gram of marijuana and a marijuana pipe.
After Croft was arrested, the first victim was taken to the scene and identified him as the same man. Croft is now being held in Duval County jail on charges of violation of parole, failure of a sex offender to report residency or name change, two counts of burglary to an occupied structure, theft from a dwelling, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Croft served nine years in prison on separate convictions of a lewd and lascivious assault on a child and lewd and lascivious exhibition of a minor.
Anyone with information about these crimes can contact the Sheriff’s Office at (904) 630-0500 or by email at JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org. To remain anonymous and receive a possible reward, contact Crime Stoppers at 1 (866) 845-TIPS or email them at rewards@crimestoppers.com
News Video Clip Reporting Elton P. Croft –http://www.news4jax.com/news/Sexual-Offender-arrested-in-Atlantic-Beach/-/475880/12442498/-/10149o7/-/index.html
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A sexual predator with a psychopathic personality disorder has been going to outside Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in St. Paul ! He admitted to molested 29 CHILDREN!!!!!!!!
A turning point for state’s sex offender program
Article by: WARREN WOLFE , Star Tribune
Updated: February 19, 2012 – 7:34 AM
A man who has admitted to molesting 29 children is about to become the first in over a decade to be freed from the state’s St. Peter facility. His release will test the ability of behavioral science.
One day soon, perhaps as early as next Saturday, convicted child molester Clarence Opheim will walk off the campus at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter and into a cauldron of politics and community apprehension.
The first patient to be discharged from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) in more than a decade, Opheim, 64, will take his first steps at an intensive St. Paul therapy program called Project Pathfinder.
Maas said 97 percent of Pathfinder’s graduates who meet all 19 goals do not re-offend. “We think everyone can succeed here,” he said. “But not everybody will. Some people just cannot, or will not, do the work.”
Whether sex offenders can be “cured,” and which therapy works best, has been a topic of study for decades. There is no clear answer, in part because the 50 states have so many different programs, each treating small populations of offenders, often over a period of years. But a large Canadian study published in 2002 found that recidivism rates — the share of patients who re-offend within five years — can be roughly cut in half by effective programs, from 18 percent to about 10 percent.
Opheim, who has been judged a psychopathic personality and who admitted to molesting 29 children, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison in 1988 for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy. At his release, a judge placed him in MSOP.
On Feb. 12, a three-judge panel granted Opheim’s request for provisional discharge from the program — a sort of probation that will place him under close supervision and can be reversed if he doesn’t succeed.
In fact, Opheim has been participating in Pathfinder therapy for most of the last three years — a period when he’s been in MSOP’s Community Preparation Services, a reintegration phase of the program at St. Peter, Benson said.
“Will we have the same surveillance on the 100th person who is granted provisional discharge?” said Benson. “I don’t know. I want to believe we’ll be every bit as careful, but I know we are taking every precaution with the first one.”
Opheim and most of the others in that end stage of therapy are escorted weekly to St. Paul for sessions with Pathfinder therapists and with groups of other sex offenders. They also are taken to AA meetings, other therapy and volunteer activities away from the St. Peter campus.
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“Will we have the same surveillance on the 100th person who is granted provisional discharge?” said Benson. “I don’t know. I want to believe we’ll be every bit as careful, but I know we are taking every precaution with the first one.”
Rest Of Article
http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/139595093.html
Here we have AA going after Teenagers in Juvenile detentions and halfway housing for them. Get this- The requirements from the judicial sytem for AA/NA members to start a meeting within the detention centers is –
1. 2 years sobriety, 2. No current probation or parole 3. No Past sex offender violations!Okay- these are requirements that the AA and NA H&I division is quite familiar with nationwide. Yet both the government and AA/NA throw all caution to the wind when these vulnerable minor teenagers continue AA/NA meetings on the outside. A sex offender on probation who has not been sober long can sponsor a minor. There are no safety measures any longer for adolescents once out of the juvenile detention etc.
What is wrong with this picture? Talk about our youth falling through the cracks, this takes the cake! Disgusting neglect by our government and AA World Services and NA World Services.
http://www.pdxaa.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=SvMoFaXEC20%3D&tabid=91&mid=590
Past article on this pedophile-
Published Wednesday, September 3, 2003
Registered sex offender may be charged with third crime
By Veronica Chapin
Times-Union staff writer,
The State Attorney’s Office is waiting for additional information before charging a registered sex offender in his third sex-related crime.
Elton P. Croft, 27, of Jacksonville was arrested last week after a teenage girl said a man exposed himself before trying to kidnap her in Atlantic Beach. He is being held in the Duval County jail on a $250,000 bail and scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 18. Croft had only been out of prison for a month before his latest arrest.
Assistant State Attorney Libby Senterfitt said Tuesday additional reports are being sought in the case before a formal charge is given.
Croft’s first sex-related arrest was March 14, 1999 for masturbating outside the bedroom window of a 14-year-old girl, then using his vehicle to strike a man who tried to confront him. As part of an agreement, adjudication was withheld in exchange for Croft pleading guilty to a lewd and lascivious act in the presence of a minor and assault. Circuit Judge Giles Lewis sentenced him to six months and three years’ probation. The judge also ordered Croft to get psychosexual and alcohol and drug counseling, officials said. It was unknown Tuesday if Croft completed the therapy. Lewis died last year.
On June 7, 2000, Croft was arrested for masturbating and stalking after a 16-year-old girl told police she saw a man exposing himself at a Publix parking lot. The man returned later that day and pulled up beside the teen. He also was charged with violation of probation after violating his curfew in a separate incident. Croft was sentenced to four years and labeled a registered sex offender.
Croft was released July 29, according to Sterling Ivey of the state Department of Corrections.
Because Croft is a sexual offender, not a sexual predator, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is not required to notify neighbors or businesses near his home, said Lt. Paul Woolard. According to a police report, Croft lives in a home in the 11300 block of Motor Yacht Drive North. No one answered the door or the telephone at the home Tuesday.
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/090303/met_croft.shtml