DESPITE MONITORING, SEX OFFENDER BREAKS INTO HOME, MOLESTS 70-YEAR-OLD WOMAN

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By Miriam Raftery

July 22, 2014 (Jacumba) – Several registered sex offenders have been released recently in East County, with promises from authorities that electronic monitoring would protect people in the community.  But on Monday, a sex offender being monitored by authorities broke into a 70-year-old woman’s home in Jacumba and molested her, the Sheriff’s office has announced.

John Wilson Kreischer, 68, reportedly kissed and fondled the woman before leaving her home. He was arrested a short time later—after the victim called authorities.  Kreischer is charged of sexual battery and burglary; his bail has been set at $50,000.

Kreisher has previously been convicted of forcible rape and lewd conduct with a child.  He has been registered with the state as a sexually violent predator.  In 2009 he was again arrested for failing to register as a sex offender, but was released from custody in 2013.  He was last registered as a transient in the Lemon Grove area.

As a condition of his parole, he was being reportedly monitored by a GPS system. 

But the electronic monitoring failed to protect his latest victim from harm.  While it may have enabled authorities to capture him after the assault, it did nothing to prevent the crime.

John Kreischer’s latest assault raises serious questions about just how safe East County communities are where predators have been released, or are proposed to be released in the future.

Supervisor Dianne Jacob notes that of six predators placed in rural East County in recent years, at least three later violated the terms of their release.  Jacob has long opposed the placement of sexual predators in rural communities.

Yet a hearing to replace yet another sexual predator, Allen Fields, is taking place in San Diego on Wednesday, where a Superior Court Judge will determine whether or not to allow the convicted pedophile who sexually assaulted several young boys to be released in Campo. 

 


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