As one company found out, the importance of employee background screening can protect both customers and the business itself from criminals. An ice cream business based in Ohio has been under a lot of scrutiny after a local news station reported that they employed a sex offender. According to WHIO, on July 21, 2010 a convicted sex offender was found to be driving an ice cream truck that delivered ice cream to children and adults throughout the neighborhoods of Fairborn, OH. Local authorities arrested the man after making the discovery for failure to notify. Many are asking questions about whether an employment check was completed on one of their drivers.

Man Never Registered Job As Required By Law

According the article, the convicted sex offender did not report the job as the law requires. Upon conviction and sentencing, sex offenders are notified of their responsibility to register both their place of residence and employment. While it is not illegal for a convicted sex offender to work with children, police ensure that the employer is aware of the criminal background history of the employee. The driver’s had been convicting of gross sexual imposition which involved an eight-year-old girl. He is being held on the failure to notify charges and could face jail time if convicted.

Questions Raised About Business’ Employment Check

The local news station contacted the company to look into the kind of background checks being ran on drivers. This position involves coming in contact with children all the time and hiring a sex offender could put those children at risk. While an employee of the company stated that they do perform background checks, the Ice Cream company has not released an official statement on the matter at last report. If they did indeed have a background screening performed on the driver, the business certainly could have avoided this public debacle with a more in-depth screening.

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