\n\t\t\t\t\t\tResidents in the South Side Slopes say they were stunned to learn that a dozen registered sex offenders moved into a building on Salisbury Street last week, living together in two apartments in the middle of the neighborhood. According to Pennsylvania\u2019s Megan\u2019s Law website, the men are convicted of a range of sex crimes, including rape of an unconscious person, indecent assault by forcible compulsion, and aggravated indecent assault involving a victim under 13.\u201cIf they\u2019re convicted and they have been proven, I would not feel safe having them there,\u201d said Tyler Blackburn, who lives about a building away. Blackburn said he supports rehabilitation but worries about the concentration of offenders in one location. \u201cI\u2019m for recovery. I\u2019m for people coming back from it. But I don\u2019t know. I do feel a little bit of unease if there are 12 of them here,\u201d he said.City officials say their ability to intervene is limited. City Councilmember Bob Charland, who represents the area, said the city has no local control over facilities like the one operating on Salisbury Street and cannot regulate them. However, Charland said the operators have agreed to move the men out \u201cas soon as possible\u201d and not continue operating at that location.Property owner Dave Silberstein echoed neighbors\u2019 concerns, saying the area is home to families and is close to parks and schools. \u201cThis is a nice neighborhood, you know, there\u2019s people with kids, and there\u2019s parks and schools and, you know, to have something like that right next door is not so great,\u201d he said, adding that while he supports recovery programs, he does not believe 12 sex offenders should be housed together in one place.Charland said the facility is working with state parole to relocate the men, but there is no specific timeline. The company operating the home did not respond to requests for details. Pittsburgh’s Action News reporter Marcie Cipriani knocked on the door, but the man who answered immediately shut the door when she identified herself.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Residents in the South Side Slopes say they were stunned to learn that a dozen registered sex offenders moved into a building on Salisbury Street last week, living together in two apartments in the middle of the neighborhood. <\/p>\n
According to Pennsylvania\u2019s Megan\u2019s Law website, the men are convicted of a range of sex crimes, including rape of an unconscious person, indecent assault by forcible compulsion, and aggravated indecent assault involving a victim under 13.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they\u2019re convicted and they have been proven, I would not feel safe having them there,\u201d said Tyler Blackburn, who lives about a building away. <\/p>\n
Blackburn said he supports rehabilitation but worries about the concentration of offenders in one location. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m for recovery. I\u2019m for people coming back from it. But I don\u2019t know. I do feel a little bit of unease if there are 12 of them here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
City officials say their ability to intervene is limited. <\/p>\n
City Councilmember Bob Charland, who represents the area, said the city has no local control over facilities like the one operating on Salisbury Street and cannot regulate them. <\/p>\n
However, Charland said the operators have agreed to move the men out \u201cas soon as possible\u201d and not continue operating at that location.<\/p>\n
Property owner Dave Silberstein echoed neighbors\u2019 concerns, saying the area is home to families and is close to parks and schools. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a nice neighborhood, you know, there\u2019s people with kids, and there\u2019s parks and schools and, you know, to have something like that right next door is not so great,\u201d he said, adding that while he supports recovery programs, he does not believe 12 sex offenders should be housed together in one place.<\/p>\n
Charland said the facility is working with state parole to relocate the men, but there is no specific timeline. <\/p>\n
The company operating the home did not respond to requests for details. <\/p>\n
Pittsburgh’s Action News reporter Marcie Cipriani knocked on the door, but the man who answered immediately shut the door when she identified herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in the South Side Slopes say they were stunned to learn that a dozen registered sex offenders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,2088,58023,21080,10499,86,22462,5866,1399,8969,7700,73,75,74,58021,12883,58022,35870,44612],"class_list":["post-123544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-area","tag-charland","tag-concern","tag-facility","tag-home","tag-indecent-assault","tag-location","tag-man","tag-neighborhood","tag-park","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-recovery-house","tag-resident","tag-salisbury-street-last-week","tag-sex-offender","tag-south-side-slopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}