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Marc Giauque ReportingPolice searching for clues in the disappearance of Destiny Norton say they contacted more than 100 registered sex offenders within a day of her disappearance. Many live within blocks of the girl's home. Some tell us they expected a knock at their door.
Robert is on parole, after spending five years in prison for sexual abuse of a child.
"When I was 18, I went to a party. This girl told me she was 18, she wasn't and I admitted to sleeping with her."
Robert is among the dozens on a list of registered sex offenders living within blocks of Norton's house. He wasn't surprised when detectives contacted him.
"In a way I feel like, you know, I'm going to get questioned for anything and everything, but I would have felt the same because I have a daughter."
He may have felt the same, but...
"I hate it, because I think it's, ya know, I don't think it's fair."
Unfair, he says, because he believes he's served his time, and he says because his offense shouldn't necessarily put him in the same category as a child predator. But he says he's accepted it to a point.
"You go to prison to serve your time for the community, but you know at the same time, they've got to do their job. I don't like it."
Another man on the list had just moved out of his apartment a few blocks to the north. Manager John Miller says they didn't know the truth about his past. Miller says at one time, there were three former sex offenders living in the apartments he manages. He says one left just a few weeks ago.
"After cleaning out the apartment, we found a lot of pornographic material, books and stuff, depicting...they were women of age, but they were depicting them as younger."
Not illegal for most, but for people like Robert, it could be enough to send him back to prison.
Robert says he doesn't try to hide his past. He says he knows with publicity over the search, a lot of people have gotten online, seen his photo and found his address.
