My apology to two White girls.

by Billy Roper

This is not addressed to ex-wives or to girlfriends. In fact, it’s not about something that I ever did, but for what I didn’t do.

Back in 2015, our family was living in Everton, Arkansas, when a mixed race couple moved in one house down across the street. At first, I thought it was just the buck and his dirty formerly White skank, which was disturbing enough. They played loud rap music and had a lot of traffic in and out right off the bat. Then, a week or so later, I saw him drive two preteen White girls to the bus stop. That was even worse. Sadly, that was not the depth of the corruption, even yet. Not for Leslie Davis Turner.

Within a month I was startled early one morning to see several County police officers standing around in my front yard. Of course, I assumed the worse, and prepared myself psychologically and otherwise for whatever was coming. However, in this case they were actually there to do a good thing. Kind of.

You see, Leslie had failed to register with the County, as sex offenders must, when he and his bitch and her daughters moved there. He was in violation. They were looking for him to serve him paperwork. Although he wasn’t jailed for not registering, at least they had been open enough with me about his record for me to look him up. And to act.

We had to keep our kids inside, they couldn’t even play in their own yard, much less go to the park by themselves, any more. We aren’t the kind to not do anything in the face of evil, though. We started to talking to all of our other neighbors, with whom we had built up a friendly rapport. They were all grateful to be warned, and shocked at what had moved in. They asked us what we could do about it.

I created and printed off flyers with his mugshot and arrest report, listing his crime, address, and classification as a registered sex offender. My wife and I went from house to house all around the neighborhood, knocking on  doors and alerting the community. We posted the flyers at the community center, at city hall, the grocery store, the post office, and everywhere else we could think of. Leslie’s mudshark would sometimes write “This is racist!” on them, even though race was not mentioned on  the flyers at all.

Finally, we discovered through research that they were living too close, technically, to a small city park, and they were forced to move away. We counted that as a victory for our neighborhood, but not for wherever they landed next, or for the two little blonde girls.

Others in Harrison whom we spoke with found out that the “family” had moved there, and flyered their new community with updated information. Then, we moved, and frankly lost touch with the situation.

He had been arrested for failing to register in Pulaski County the year before, as a child sex offender. According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, which did not arrest him for failing to register when he moved in by us, even though they DID make him move, Turner is a level 3 sex offender. Here’s what they say that means:

Level 3: (Yellow)
High Level. These individuals usually have histories of repeat sexual offending, and/or strong antisocial, violent or predatory personality characteristics. Sexual compulsions are likely to be present, but may be kept under control when relapse prevention plans are followed and treatment is continued. The offense patterns of these individuals reflect a relatively high probability of re-offense and/or a risk of substantial injury to victims should re-offense occur.

I feel guilty. I am ashamed. I can never look them in the eye to tell them, but even so I am sorry.

I am so sorry for the little White girls. They both must be between 12 and 15 or so, now. I saw him with them, against their free will. I researched his facebook page and the woman’s, where he was pictured hugging all over them. I did what I could to get him out of the neighborhood and make people aware of what he was…but when it came to those two little girls, I passed the buck. I wrote them off. I let the down. I feel awful for that now, and let me tell you why.

Because now, Leslie Turner has been arrested again, for the same thing. And I can only imagine the hell those girls have been living in for the last three years. Telling them that I tried is not good enough. Saying that it’s their mom’s fault for being with him, won’t change the reality for them. Their lives are badly damaged, if not ruined.

Now, it’s not my place to tell you what to do, but…If you see something, don’t just say something. Do something.

Do something.

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