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Kansas Sex Offender Forced to Use "Sex Offender" Signs

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by Adam Everett Marshall

From the street it looks like a normal house.  But look closer and you'll learn something about who's inside.

After pleading guilty to solicitation with a 9-year-old, Leroy Schad was sentenced to five years probation and house arrest.  But that's not all.  Schad must also display signs reading "SEX OFFENDER LIVES HERE" on every side of his house during his 5 year sentence.

The 72-year-old openly told me what he did.  "The kids were spending a night with me and this particular thing I did happened while we were laying down on the floor at night to go to sleep. It lasted about a minute or less. I was just touching," Schad said. 

"Leroy, what do you say to someone who says, you molested a child. You deserve the signs. You deserve the loneliness," I asked. "I don't think I do.  What I did was wrong and I deserve something for that, there's no doubt about it.  But I do not think I deserve what I got," Schad said.

"What do you think you deserve," I asked.  "That I don't know," Schad said.

Schad must also drive with a sticker on the side of his car reading "SEX OFFENDER In This Car."

"A pick-up truck with four young guys in it passed me.  Looking at the signs laughing.  They got past me and and one stuck his hand out the window and flipped me off," Schad explained.

Neighbors feel he deserves what he got.  "I think it's actually important for him to have the signs.  That way people that live in the neighborhood knows about that person," said Hope Miller who lives down the street with her four children.

Schad disagrees.  "It's been pure hell.  The isolation, the lonliness," he said.

"He shouldn't have done it in the first place," said Hope's husband Chris.

If Schad takes down the signs or violates any part of his probation he will face more than three years in prison.

Schad is currently appealing his sentence.