Boy Accused Of Molesting Toddlers Returned To Neighborhood
POSTED: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
UPDATED: 7:25 pm EST November 28,
2006
A 15-year-old boy caught on a hidden nanny camera allegedly molesting two young boys at a Palm Coast, Fla., home was sent back to his home near the alleged victims because of overcrowding problems at area detention centers, according to a Local 6 News report.
Brandon Jaffe, 15, was taken into custody after neighborhood parents videotaped the boy allegedly molesting their 2- and 3-year-old children.
"The toddler's parents planted a video camera in their home and their worst fears were confirmed when they watched the tape," Local 6's Tarik Minor said. "Their baby sitter had been sexually molesting their 2- and 3-year-old boys."
Jaffe was put on house arrest and allowed back to his neighborhood because the county's detention centers are overcrowded, Local 6 News reported.
"It was a tough call, according to a Flagler County judge," Minor said. "He considered letting Jaffe live with a family friend while he await trail but that friend has a 5-year-old of her own. The judge opted not to shift one community's problem to another."
Local 6 reported that 10 children live within 100 feet of Jaffe's home.
"To keep him in areas where lots of children are is just asking for trouble," neighbor Angela Couch said. "It is gasoline on the fire."
"The people he did this to are locked in their houses trying to protect their kids and he gets to walk his dog every day," neighbor Brian Walker said. "He has got victims that he has done things that are unmentionable but now he is creating new victims because we all shutter our kids into the home. We don't let them come out to play."
"If this is what he has done, he need to not be here -- not in the same place where he did it," neighbor Phil Deaugustino said.
A judge said Tuesday that Jaffe will remain on house arrest until his trial in February.
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