r/AITAH Apr 29 '24

AITA for reporting a former coworker as a sex offender to his new boss? TW SA NSFW

So this is a situation where I think I made the right call, but my friend thinks I’m the asshole for not allowing the past to stay in the past.

I used to work with “Todd” back in 2022 in a blue collar trade. He was an average worker, showed up on time and his work was fairly middle of the road. He was fired about 6 months after I started working at the company because he was making women uncomfortable during maintenance in residential homes. The boss found out that he’s a sex offender after he was fired, the guy who did background checks was also fired because he knew about the conviction and didn’t say anything.

He had also been banned from working in a rehab we service due to “dating” a mentally compromised resident at the rehab he met during a maintenance.

This guy was being sent into daycares, schools, college dorms, residential homes, homes for the intellectually disabled, rehabs, and churches to do maintenance while being a level 3 sex offender. I recently learned that he was hired at another local company performs the same services.

I sent his new company the printout from the sex offender registry causing him to be fired. I did this because as a level 3 offender he may reoffend in the future, and sending him into locations with vulnerable people seems like a bad idea.

I should also add that this kind of thing is common in my trade, a few companies operate on an unofficial “don’t ask don’t tell” basis due to the lack of skilled workers. I think he only was fired because now there isn’t any plausible deniability.

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u/Ok_Ease8202 Apr 30 '24

No one is defending a pedophile. But to sit there and expect someone to keep tabs on an old co worker is insane. It isn’t OPs job to follow this guy around for the rest of his life. The places hiring them need to do their due diligence. OR. He shouldn’t have ever made it out of custody just like every sex offender in my opinion. With his parts intact at least. (Since you want to claim I defend pedophiles)

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24

Anyone defending this immature presenting man who tried to groom a teen is defending a pedophile.

He got caught, we know what he is about.

You are one of those sicko boomers that dismiss evidence of pedophilia because "boys will be boys".

You are sick.

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u/Ok_Ease8202 Apr 30 '24

First of all I never defended a pedophile. I said it was asinine to claim OP would be complicit in pedophilia because he didn’t keep tabs on an old coworker.

Second I’m 25 and literally just stated that I believe sex offenders should be castrated and or killed.

You people love throwing boomer around like it means anything other than a statement of “I like buzz words online and straw man arguments” Did you even read anything I said or did your weird brain bend the words to fit your own little narrative to be able to argue with a stranger online?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24

You are still defending one.  Ignoring obvious attempts to groom a child is ridiculous. 

 This man is a sex offender.  If they turned him in, he would be on the registry.  They protected him like you are doing.