- Joseph Moore was sentenced to six years in prison in 1997 for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14
- He camped outside the $11,500-a-year Stella Maris Academy with provocative signs offering meth and “free fentanyl.”
- Moore reportedly admitted to selling drugs when questioned by a local media outlet
A convicted pedophile has set up camp outside a San Francisco school with signs offering “free fentanyl” and other drugs – a move that has drawn the ire of the community.
Joseph Adam Moore, 46, lives in a tent near the Stella Maris Academy Catholic school. California sex offender registry records show Moore was sentenced to six years in prison in 1997 for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14.
Pictures show the warehouse decorated with signs reading “Meth for Stolen Items” and “Free Fentanyl 4 New Users.”
“We don’t want something like this near our schools, but we want to work with law enforcement to set the guidelines,” Peter Marlow, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said of the exhibit.
Joseph Adam Moore, 46, is convicted of sexual contact with a child under 14 but was lodged at Stella Maris Academy in San Francisco
Pictures show his warehouse decorated with signs reading “Meth for Stolen Items” and “Free for New Fentanyl 4 Users.”
A Santa Cruz Sentinel article from the same year describes how Moore was out of custody for just a month after he molested a 12-year-old girl when he committed “statutory rape” on a 15-year-old girl.
He has also been arrested five times since 2007 for failing to provide authorities with his sex offender address every 30 days, the San Francisco Standard reports.
Moore told the Standard that the signs at the encampment had been up for several days and had already received an “accusatory response” with some people threatening his life.
He also admitted that he was actually selling drugs.
“Yes, this is actually happening, but only because I’m tired.” I’m tired. If you want to flush the whole world down the toilet, if you want to ignore people like me, then you do it at your own risk. I mean, I’m a scholar. “You can’t fucking fake it,” he said.
Moore was about 19 years old when he was convicted in 1997, but claimed he was told that a guilty plea would result in a lighter sentence that could be wiped from his record with good behavior.
“It’s all lies, and there is no bigger lie than the justice system,” Moore claimed.
Moore was last arrested on May 11 for an alleged crime while out on bail, but no further details about the crime were available.
Moore has posted signs reading “free fentanyl” and “meth for stolen goods” at his warehouse across the street from the $11,500-a-year Catholic school
His presence across the street from the $11,700-a-year school has raised eyebrows, including from the environmental group Refuse Refuse San Francisco.
The charity shared a picture of the encampment and said: “This is a sign at the encampment we regularly clean at 9th Avenue and Geary, right next to the Richmond Library.”
“Can anyone justify how we accept this as normal and acceptable?”
Marlow said police visited Moore’s camp several times.
“I noticed that this person is well established there. “They disappeared about a month ago and now they’ve reappeared,” Marlow told the Standard.
“I had seen him for the last year before he disappeared, but now he’s back. “I don’t know about these signs of fentanyl and all that.”
He added that the school would investigate Moore’s claims that he was selling drugs.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department confirmed to the outlet that there were no incident reports related to the location and that Moore had no arrest record in the past 90 days.