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October
THE MOLESTER NEXT DOOR (His life among neighbors who abhor him)
Xavier Morris, a 22 year old newlywed and first-time father, lives in a Sound Beach community decked out for Halloween trick-or-treaters, where kids used to ride bikes and shoot hoops in driveways, where children now play inside and the narrow roads of the wooded enclave of Scott’s Beach are empty. Residents there say he should leave. Morris is a level 3 sex offender who admits he sexually abused three young relatives when he was a teenager, but only after he himself was damaged by years of sexual abuse. He says