These type of stories really make you never want to use a babysitter.I don't understand why this Florida woman would have her boyfriend around the kids she was watching.Especially this guy.Here's more on this story from The Palm Beach Post:
"A convicted murderer and child molester was arrested Thursday on charges that for months he sexually molested five young girls who his longtime girlfriend babysat, police said.
Sheriff's officials say Marcus Blanchard, 54, fondled the girls, who ranged in age from 5 to 10, and had sex with a 7-year-old.
The alleged acts occurred at the home of his girlfriend, Lois Vendecreek, 64, at 1569 Citation Drive in West Palm Beach, according to an arrest report.
The charges were not a novelty for Blanchard.
In 1980, he was arrested and later convicted of molesting his own daughters, 5 and 7 at the time, according to police.
And then in the mid-1980s he made local headlines when he killed a man in a fight over drug money, got away with it, then confessed three years later because he said his conscience was bothering him.
He was convicted in 1988 of second-degree murder and sentenced after reciting a poem about the murder, titled "That Very Day."
He was released in 1997. Four years later, sheriff's deputies found his mother, Flora Coffey, two-days dead in her suburban West Palm Beach home and him asleep in another room.
He was ultimately determined not to be responsible for her death but taken all the same to the 45th Street Mental Health Center for evaluation.
Vendecreek said she and Blanchard had been living together for nearly seven years and said she couldn't believe that he had molested the children she cared for in her home."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
