Registered sex offenders: 11 living in Fairmount as of week ending March 1

There are 11 registered sex offenders living in Fairmount as of the week ending March 1, according to the Georgia Sex Offender Registry.

The Registry shows two of these sex offenders are sexual predators. In Georgia, a sexual predator is an individual who is determined by the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board to be at risk of perpetrating any future dangerous sexual offense.

The Registry also shows three of these sex offenders are currently incarcerated.

Sex offenders in Georgia remain on the Sexual Offender Registry for life unless removed by a court order or other legal means. Any individual who fails to register when required “shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 30 years,” according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

If a sex offender moves to another county in the state of Georgia or another state in the US, they are required to register with the Sheriff in their new county or state of residence.

SafeHome.org, a security think tank, found the number of sex offenders in the US increases by roughly 32,000 a year.

Offender	Status	Crime
Charles Edward Nobles	incarcerated	Aggravated child molestation
David Wayne Farmer	incarcerated	Child molestation
Justin Lee Adcox	not incarcerated	Sexual battery against a child under 16 years of age
Katherine Jones	incarcerated	Sexual battery against a child under 16 years of age
Kenneth Allen Parsons	not incarcerated	Statutory rape
Kevin Lamar Smith	not incarcerated	Aggravated child molestation
Larry Knowles	not incarcerated	Child molestation
Larry Thomas Patterson	not incarcerated	Criminal attempt to commit child molestation
Michael David Vaught	not incarcerated	Statutory rape
Michael Keith Hannah	not incarcerated	Child molestation
William Arthur Etheridge	not incarcerated	Criminal attempt to commit child molestation