By Simon Plumb, Simon CollinsCommunity anger is boiling after a "high-risk" sex offender was moved from a placement near one Auckland school to a house near another. "He is a high-risk sex offender being kept in Mangere, where he has no relatives or links to anyone. He said Corrections officers told him on May 26 that the offender would be moving into his community the next day. Robert Kumar, who has two daughters at Jean Batten School, said the community was struggling to make sense of why a high-risk offender had been placed close to a school and where he has no connections. But he has now been placed in the same street as another school, Jean Batten Primary School, which called a public meeting last Thursday night to protest about it.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 26, 2016 05:48 UTC