Sunday, March 28, 2010

Paul Iles - Repeat Sex Offender - Claimed he was reformed

Iles made headlines five years ago when he moved into an Erlanger subdivision full of children, angering parents in the neighborhood.

In an interview at his home there in April 2005, Iles told The Enquirer he had successfully completed a sex-offender treatment program in prison and was no longer a threat to children, and that he was compliant with the state as a registered sex offender. He claimed he learned to take responsibility for his crime, empathize with his victims and avoid high-risk situations.

But the abuse against another victim that began in 2003 occurred after his release and before the interview, unknown to anyone at the time except the victim and him. He continued abusing her for four years.



Paul Iles, a registered sex offender who has spent two terms in prison totaling 16 years for sex abuse against children, has been arrested again.

Iles, 54, was arrested last week after being indicted by a Kenton County grand jury in 2008 on a first-degree sodomy charge against a child under 12 years of age.

The alleged crime occurred between 1974 and 1983 in Erlanger.

Iles was arraigned Monday in Kenton County District Court. He is being held in the Kenton County jail on $10,000 cash bond.

Iles wasn't arrested until last Wednesday because he'd been serving a three-year sentence at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in LaGrange. That was for a 2007 conviction in Boone County for first-degree sexual abuse. The victim was 10 years old when the abuse initially began in 2003.

That prison term ended Wednesday, but Iles was picked up there by the Kenton County Sheriff's Department on the warrant from the Erlanger Police Department.

Iles' first prison term lasted 13 years, from 1990 through 2002, for the molestation of a young boy and girl in Kenton County in the 1980s. The children were those of a woman he was dating at the time.

Iles made headlines five years ago when he moved into an Erlanger subdivision full of children, angering parents in the neighborhood.

In an interview at his home there in April 2005, Iles told The Enquirer he had successfully completed a sex-offender treatment program in prison and was no longer a threat to children, and that he was compliant with the state as a registered sex offender. He claimed he learned to take responsibility for his crime, empathize with his victims and avoid high-risk situations.

But the abuse against another victim that began in 2003 occurred after his release and before the interview, unknown to anyone at the time except the victim and him. He continued abusing her for four years.

The child's mother said Iles should never be released.

"I really hope they convict him and lock him up and throw away the key," the mother said Monday.


"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte

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