HS Ref/Convicted Sex Offender

[BayStateRef]

This is starting to become a big story in the Boston area. Does you association have a policy regarding criminal background checks?

First reported in The Salem News last week.
From : http://www.thebostonchannel.com/heal...83/detail.html

SALEM, Mass. -- A convicted sex offender is working as a referee at high school basketball games on the North Shore.

Framingham, Mass., resident Philip Paul was convicted in the late 1980s of indecent assault and battery and rape of a minor.

Paul told the Salem News both convictions involved the same 15-year-old boy in New Hampshire. He served two years in prison.

A supervisor of referees, Paul Halloran, said the local board voted to let Paul continue working because of his clean record since his crimes.

Halloran noted referees have no unsupervised contact with athletes.

Paul is a Level Two sex offender, meaning he has a moderate risk of re-offending.

Paul said that he takes responsibility for what he did, but he's paid his debt to society.

He said in 17 years no one's complained about his conduct or ethics.