This investigation began with a tip from a South Florida source that a Broward County school teacher who had been convicted of sexually molesting a seventh-grade student had convinced a judge to let him avoid going to prison. The sex offender then moved not far from his victim’s home. I uncovered that the judge erred in granting this arrangement – there had been no legal precedent for it -- and the Broward Sheriff’s Office, charged with monitoring the sex offender’s whereabouts, appeared to have no record of where he was at times.
Impact:
One day after my story ran, authorities re-arrested the sex offender and he was sent straight to prison http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/24/sex.molester.bond/index.html?iref=nextin