IN-DEPTH REPORT: The sex offender next door
According to the Buffalo News coverage, Thomas Moore, 62, previously served prison time for two convictions involving disabled or incapacitated women in hospitals.
He was released from prison in 2016 with a label of Level III sex offender, the most severe.
Because of his own disability and medical needs, Moore was released to Waterfront Center, a nursing home in Buffalo. Less than a month later, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a fellow resident in her bed.
The nursing home told the Buffalo paper that they were unaware of his sex offender status or history until weeks after he was admitted.
The case mirrors that of Scott Russell Cook, which the Dayton Daily News chronicled.
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When Cook moved into a Stark County nursing home in early 2016, the staff said they were aware of his sex offender status, but not of the particulars of his history.
Cook’s previous victim was a 92-year-old woman he attempted to rape while he was housed in a Cleveland nursing home.
Seven days into his stay at Roselawn Gardens, he was caught assaulting an 85-year-old woman in her bed. He is now back in prison.
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