Diva
04-25-02, 07:00AM
(NEWS (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50957,00.html)) -- Officials last week posted and handed out notices warning that Glenn Haslam Barker, 43, was convicted of murdering a 12-year-old girl in Virginia in 1982.
The notices said Barker, who has been living in the area since 1997, he has cruised mall parking lots, stopped to assist a stranded female motorist and has coached youth basketball and baseball teams at a YMCA.
Barker said his neighbors now decline to talk to him, and someone threw eggs in his driveway.
Over the past few days, Barker has left his own two-page response on the windshields of about 80 cars parked near his home and job.
"To start with, let me make it perfectly clear that no one in this community or any other community has anything to fear about me," Barker wrote. He did not specify what he considered misleading in the notice.
Middlesex County Prosecutor Glenn Berman said his office stood by its public notices.
"My only response is this: We have to balance his expectation of privacy against the public expectation to be informed," Berman told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Tuesday's editions.
Barker pleaded guilty to assaulting an 18-year-old girl in Virginia in 1981, and murdered the 12-year-old while on probation. He was not convicted of a sex crime, which would trigger community warnings under Megan's Law.
This is hard one to decide. I did his time, yet he did kill a child in cold blood. Would you trust him with children?
The notices said Barker, who has been living in the area since 1997, he has cruised mall parking lots, stopped to assist a stranded female motorist and has coached youth basketball and baseball teams at a YMCA.
Barker said his neighbors now decline to talk to him, and someone threw eggs in his driveway.
Over the past few days, Barker has left his own two-page response on the windshields of about 80 cars parked near his home and job.
"To start with, let me make it perfectly clear that no one in this community or any other community has anything to fear about me," Barker wrote. He did not specify what he considered misleading in the notice.
Middlesex County Prosecutor Glenn Berman said his office stood by its public notices.
"My only response is this: We have to balance his expectation of privacy against the public expectation to be informed," Berman told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Tuesday's editions.
Barker pleaded guilty to assaulting an 18-year-old girl in Virginia in 1981, and murdered the 12-year-old while on probation. He was not convicted of a sex crime, which would trigger community warnings under Megan's Law.
This is hard one to decide. I did his time, yet he did kill a child in cold blood. Would you trust him with children?