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[DigitalWarrior]

Another article
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Sex+offender+hopes+for+fresh+start&articleId=fc97f0f7-2791-4e39-a45b-2cfff1f9e9c0



MANCHESTER – A recently released state prisoner with a history of sex offenses has taken up residence in a Bridge Street rooming house.

Jonathan Perfetto, 34, says he is trying to get a "fresh start" at 195 Bridge St. after seven years in prison on child pornography charges.

"I just moved here. I don't want to get in trouble," he said.

His presence, however, has alarmed some city officials. Mayor Frank Guinta called Perfetto a "classic example" of someone who is likely to reoffend.

"There's got to be a better system than just allowing someone like this to come to Manchester, unannounced, without any preconditions," Guinta said.

Perfetto does not require supervision under state law because he maxed out his three- to seven-year prison sentence. His sentence ended Oct. 22, according to a Department of Corrections spokesman.
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"I just moved here. I don't want to get in trouble," said Jonathan Perfetto.

Records in Hillsborough County Superior Court show Perfetto twice failed to complete a sex offender treatment program. His primary therapist reported Perfetto was "not interested in or amenable to treatment at this time."

Perfetto himself has told reporters he fears he'll reoffend, particularly if he goes off his medication. He has claimed in court documents that he suffers from bipolar disorder and "anti-social personality disorder."

Perfetto has family in New Hampshire and is a former Manchester resident. He said he attended Central High School but did not complete his senior year because he was convicted of molesting a young relative and sent to the Youth Development Center.

His choice of housing in Manchester has made some officials uneasy. The rooming house is just a few blocks away from St. Joseph Regional Junior High School. Central High School is visible from the side entrance, a fact Perfetto seemed surprised to discover yesterday.

"Is that Central High School?" he asked while rounding the corner of Bridge and Ash streets. "They refurbished it!"

Perfetto said he found the rooming house with help from a "homeless hotline." The building already houses one other sex offender, according to the state's online registry.

The same house came under intense scrutiny last month, when a religious organization helped place a convicted child killer, Raymond Guay, in an apartment there. A public outcry spurred officials to relocate Guay to a federal halfway house in another state.

Alderman Jim Roy, whose ward includes the rooming house, said the Guay case was different because Guay "didn't have ties to the community and didn't want to be here." Perfetto, on the other hand, chose to live in Manchester.

"As much as I hate to say it, it's a free country," Roy said. "The way I look at it, he's paid his debt to society. He can go wherever he wants."

Manchester Police Lt. Scott Legasse said Perfetto has five days to register with the department as a sex offender.

"And if he doesn't, if he fails to follow the law, then he can be arrested," Legasse said.

Police in Concord had been keeping an eye on Perfetto after they discovered he was living in a parking garage near the State House. Officials there said he posed a risk to the public's safety.

"It's unusual to have someone released from state prison and not have some form of supervision," said Concord city prosecutor Scott Murray.

Perfetto pleaded guilty in March 2002 to 61 counts of child pornography possession. Prosecutors accused him of having dozens of illegal files on his computer, including some with names like "10rape," "preteen04," and "10cubaprostitute."

His record includes a conviction in 1993 for criminal trespassing and another in 1994 for simple assault. In 1998, he was charged with fondling a woman's breasts while she used a computer at the New Horizons shelter in Manchester.

Prosecutors dropped the charge.

Perfetto has admitted to other offenses, telling the Concord Monitor he was sentenced to the New Hampshire Hospital after touching a woman's chest in 1999. He wound up serving time in Merrimack County jail, he told the paper, because he fought with hospital staff over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Prosecutors said Perfetto did not exhibit good behavior in the state prison.

Court papers cite him for 28 violations of prison rules or state law, including extortion, fighting, theft, disobeying corrections officers, destroying property and counterfeiting.

He also was accused of misbehaving while in the sex offender treatment program. Once, records show, he got in trouble for watching the Disney film, "Angels in the Outfield," which was deemed "inappropriate TV."

Perfetto said he is trying to stay out of trouble at his new home in Manchester. He said he "detours" around the schools when he travels through the neighborhood.

He answered a few questions yesterday but cut the interview short, saying, "I already lost a job opportunity because of all this (publicity)."

[Russell Kanning]

I am looking for acreage where I can have a little livestock (sheep, goat, bison [in NH?], chickens) a large organic garden, 100% off grid, etc etc.  Here in CO that will take a min of about 50 ac.  Also I would like some elevation - somewhere where the water table is at least 50 ft deep.

bison are not native to this area ... I bet it would be a struggle to make them happy
the land around here wants to grow trees not grass

[Lloyd Danforth]

Russe types this surrounded by a hundred acres of grass

[Russell Kanning]

I am looking for acreage where I can have a little livestock (sheep, goat, bison [in NH?], chickens) a large organic garden, 100% off grid, etc etc.  Here in CO that will take a min of about 50 ac.  Also I would like some elevation - somewhere where the water table is at least 50 ft deep.

bison are not native to this area ... I bet it would be a struggle to make them happy
the land around here wants to grow trees not grass

[Tom Sawyer]

Wow there seems to be an echo in here. 

As to grazing animals, some people do raise them up here. However due to the climate you need to provide feed 6 months out of the year expensive unless you can produce and store it yourself. Productive farmland is at a premium.

Chickens, pigs and any of the faster growing animals are more practical for the small time farm. Harvestable size in 6 months.

[Russell Kanning]

whereas in certain places ... the bison can live through the winter with no aid at all

[dalebert]

Menno was telling me that the ground is not nearly as fertile in general as some places, particularly the south and parts of the west. He claimed that grazing animals had to consume more volume of grass to meet their nutritional requirements. I dunno.

[SpeedPhreak]

Something I will have to look into (grazing animals) - I want(ed) bison because they are nutritionaly superior... however those are minor details.  Actually w/bison you need a herd of at least 15 to keep them happy.  So I wouldn't do that until I had the space, time, experience, money for all that.  Bison require less space per head than cattle but the fencing/corals/etc... need to be taller & stronger.

If I were to move onto land today I would build the house, next year get a large garden going & get a some chickens & goats.  The next year add more crop land & another animal (sheep or pigs).

I've also toyed w/the idea of aquaculture.  Lots of ideas - nothing is ever for sure until you start doing it you know?

Maybe I'll just grow trees

[Sam A. Robrin]

"As much as I hate to say it, it's a free country," [Alderman Jim] Roy said.

That pretty well sums it up . . .

[Russell Kanning]

It is easy and natural to go trees here in the Shire.

for strong fenceposts you could leave up the trees and connect the fencing to them

the market found out that generally grazing and farming are better done in the midwest and plains
the hills have returned to trees which you can harvest

[Lloyd Danforth]

I'm not sure if Russell realizes that the town he lives in was comprised almost completely of sheep farms at one time.  A lot of logging took place also for railroad ties, but, most of the hills here were grazing.

[SpeedPhreak]

actually the livestock I plan on keeping would be for personal use - except of course a bison herd if I do that.

I bet a berry crop would be a good commercial crop in NH though?  Blueberries or Rasberries?

[Lumpy]

After perusing this post I'm feeling compelled to express myself too.
When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want to do whatever I'm capable of to help get them back in good shape.
Is that what "social responsibility" is?  Is that the "voluntary society" we ("I" speaking only for myself) seek?
As far as I'm concerned, I'm my brother's keeper.  I fail as much as the next guy.  Who honestly hasn't?  That said, I'll repeat that when anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want to do whatever I'm capable of to help get them back in good shape.  That is what its about to me.  If it isn't to you, I may not be interested and it's your loss.  Sorry.
To me, that is what I feel the FSP is.  If that is not what it is then I may be in the wrong place.
Some days I'm as shaky as a bowl of Jello yet other days I'm as sturdy as the Rock of Gibraltar.  As far as this matter goes, I know little to help, but I care about this man and any reader of my words should too.
Praise in public, criticize in private.
I may not yet be there, but I will be soon...  now you all can bitch at me for preaching (and from afar) but dammit, someone's got to do it.

[jerry]

actually the livestock I plan on keeping would be for personal use - except of course a bison herd if I do that.

I bet a berry crop would be a good commercial crop in NH though?  Blueberries or Rasberries?

I justed landed in southwest Grafton where I found apples, pears and grapes and blueberries growing in my backyard.  The hayfield, however, looks like a mildly neglected lawn when compared to what I was used to in northwest PA.
The Johnson sisters down the road grew enough clover to make delectable clover jelly, but mostly sell vegatables at their farmstand.  The next farm is advertising pick-your-own pumpkins on their sign.

So I'd say think truck-farming rather than ranches and grain fields.

That said, on the trip to the wake for Sandy's lost youth yesterday I was struck by a seriously bucolic scene with a herd of very healthy looking cows (sorry, don't know breeds).  I suspect they resort to importing feed from northern NY.  You can't even buy straw around here, as several folks with an interest in straw-bale construction found out.  So it can be done, but wil take a good chunk of capital to be successful.

[SpeedPhreak]

Lumpy - plain, simple, & sincere... thanks.

jerry - some good news & some not so good news - especially since I REALLY want to build a strawbale house.  thanks for the info though.

I never really planned on agriculture being my primary source of income - especially right off the bat.  something like this over the course of a few years - property, off grid home, crops/livestock for personal use, crops/livestock as supplemental income - then see where it goes from there... if anywhere, you know.

grapes?  anyone making icewine in the area?