Mar 25, 2008
Sex offender charged with abduction
“He denied it to the officer, but said a father approached him and accused him of attempting to abduct his child”
A registered child sex offender has been charged with abduction after police said he tried to lure a 10-year-old boy into his car.
Timothy Crosby, 45, of 305 Baltes Drive, Apt. E, in Shiloh, was charged Wednesday in the case.
Crosby recently was featured in a News-Democrat story about convicted sex offenders who live within 500 feet of licensed home day-care centers. Crosby lived near a licensed day care on Baltes Drive -- a few blocks from where police said he tried to abduct the boy. Read more
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