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Angel of Nebraska Chalks Up Another Life Saved-CHILD'S RAPE PREVENTED (REPOSTO)
Dateline 2008, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
While working as a volunteer at the Food Bank of Omaha, Nebraska, Mr. Trent J. Stewart took a chance. A Level III Registered Sex Offender was working as a volunteer at the Food Bank of Omaha. Also volunteering at the Food Bank of Omaha on a near daily basis were the special children of the Madonna School in Omaha. The Level III Sex Offender's name was Terrence Williams http://www.nsp.state.ne.us/SOR/Subje...GNUM=200105KTF He fit in well with the other volunteers and paid Food Bank of Omaha Staff and was never considered much of a threat. Williams claimed he spent six years behind bars for having sex with an underage girl. He made his crime seem harmless and no one bothered check him out. Williams was a rough exconvict type who did not socialize with the other Food Bank volunteers or staff when he did not have to. Williams had been volunteering at the Food Bank of Omaha for at least a year without incident. But something began to bother Mr. Trent (TJ) Stewart about Williams' behavior at the Food Bank. Williams bragged about sing PCP. Williams was a bully. Williams worked nearly unsupervised. But one day while volunteering at the Food Bank of Omaha it occurred to Stewart that he had easy access to the children of the Madonnal School. The children were supervised by an adult of the school, but the adult had his hands full keeping track of the mentally handicapped kids. Maybe it was the fact that Stewart himself had recalled a few years earlier being abused as a child and witnessing the abuse of other children at the hands of Omaha Police Division officers. Or maybe it was an ability to see a train wreck coming and giving a damn, but Mr. Stewart began inquiring informally with Food Bank of Omaha management as to the status of Williams and whether he was suited to be working so close to children. ? The inquiries WERE informal. A large percentage of Food Bank of Omaha staff are smokers and more information gets shared in the smoker's tent at the establishment than anywhere. Stewart inquired with Rex, the Food Bank of Omaha warehouse manager for decades about Williams, his crimes, etc. It was other Food Bank of Omaha paid staff who had brought Williams' sex offender status to Stewart's attention. But no one at the Food Bank of Omaha seemed considered beyond that. Stewart was also in a precarious situation. His volunteer service at the Food Bank of Omaha stemmed from his receiving Food Stamps from the State of Nebraska. Stewart, like Williams and many other "volunteers" had to work at minimum wage for every dollar they received in benefits. With no power and fearing retaliation by the state of Nebraska for making waves, Stewart declined to mention the Williams situation to his case worker. He also had to tread lightly at the Food Bank who had the right to dismiss him from volunteering there without any reason sending him back to Nebraska Health and Human Services for another work assignment. Stewart liked working with the Food Bank of Omaha staff and volunteers including Williams, whom he did not have a problem with. But the train was still running down the track and the potential for a train wreck, aka a child being assaulted by the Level III, would not go away. Unable to get the Food Bank warehouse manager to take his concerns seriously and not wanting to find out later that a child had been assaulted by Williams and then blaming himself for not doing more to prevent it, Stewart had an idea. After an article in the press somewhere gave the definition of a Level III sex offender as someone "Highly likely to reoffend", Stewart described the potential train wreck on USENET in the hope that someone more experienced than he in such situations might take notice. Stewart feared he may be libel for damages or retaliated upon by Williams in some fashion as well. But the volunteers from the Madonna School were always a bright light at the Food Bank of Omaha and fear for their safety as well as fear for the repuation of the Food Bank of Omaha which supplies hundreds of organizations and food pantries in Nebraska and Iowa overcame Stewart's indecision. Over the next couple of months, it appeared getting the word out may have worked. Several agency volunteers refused to allow Williams to load their vehicles. Women in particular have a special loathing for sexual predators since they and children are their victims nearly 100% of the time. One day, an hour or so before Stewart arrived for his work assignment, an altercation took place between Williams and a male agency volunteer who arrived with an agency female volunteer at the Food Bank of Omaha. Stewart is a white man. Williams is a black man. The female agency volunteer was a white woman. The female's assistant was a black man. I point this out ONLY to negate any discriminatory implication. Apparently, words were exchanged between the agency's male volunteer inside the Food Bank of Omaha garage near the loading dock and Williams. Williams proceeded to retrieve a tire iron from his vehicle following the exchange of words and return to the garage to confront the male agency volunteer. Before the situation escalated further, Food Bank of Omaha personnel stepped in and the altercation was diffused. Williams was banned from volunteering further at the Food Bank of Omaha which prevented Williams from having access to the mentally retarded children of the Madonna School while also continuing to allow them to volunteer at the Food Bank of Omaha. Trent (TJ) Stewart chose to keep his involvement in it all quiet for fear of retaliation. Police were never called and no one was ever injured. No child was ever sexually assaulted by Williams (presumably) thanks to this "intervention" by a black man, a white man, and a white woman. The Food Bank of Omaha had their reputation remain in tact as no press story or lawsuit from having a child sexually assaulted while volunteering at the Food Bank of Omaha occurred. The State of Nebraska, too, had their reputation not further damaged by a sexual assault of a child by one of their Workfair volunteers with a Levle III sex offender background. The train wreck Mr. Trent (TJ) Stewart saw coming was prevented. Williams received another volunteer assignment elsewhere, although Mr. Stewart often wonders if that assignment, too, placed children in danger of being sexually assaulted by a Level III sex offender. Several months later, Stewart was reassigned to the Goodwill in Omaha for his volunteer work. Several months later still, Nebraska Human Services ended their Workfair Program which forced food stamp recipients to work at minimum wage for every dollar of their government assistance. |
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