03
September
MOLESTERS, PEDOPHILES IN SHADOWS (Court rulings, lack of manpower defeat the intent of Megan’s Law)
Paul Perez, 20, is a convicted child molester. He pleaded guilty in 1999 to abusing his own niece, who was then younger than 11. He was sentenced to five years’ probation and put on the state’s list of high-risk sexual predators while living in apartment building. Sam Gaynor lives in an apartment two floors below Perez with his three daughters. Nobody ever told Gaynor about Perez, who lived for months in the Bruce Avenue apartment. Several neighbors said they knew nothing about him and had never been notified by authorities