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The Molester On The Block

A neighborhood freaks out, a reporter goes to work

Read Peter Y. Hong's story: Miletti grew up in La Crescenta and married his childhood sweetheart from Crescenta Valley High School when he was 19 and she was 18. They were married 20 years and had two sons and a daughter.

The wife suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. One day, when their daughter was 6, her mother walked into the Angeles National Forest in Sunland and disappeared. Her body was found several weeks later.

Miletti said his wife's death deeply depressed him and his children. He began to see his daughter as something of a surrogate for his departed wife. "It was a codependent thing," he said. "I had lost someone I loved. I needed someone to love. I was only thinking about me, not my children. It was all about me."

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Re: The Molester On The Block

The first really balanced story I've seen on this whole issue of posting abusers. But something kept flashing back to me: Wow! a whole suburban street of signs ordering this guy to leave the neighborhood. Amid the ordinariness of green lawns and driveways and sidewalks. How bizarre is that picture? Wish the writer had paused long enough to paint it, probably somewhere near the top.

Re: The Molester On The Block

12/16/06

Peter Hong's article deliberately left out the main reason the Wapello Residents for Full Disclosure are so angry. We feel this is because of the LA Times' strong opposition to prop 83.

Hong was told by two neighbors of Milletti that they had seen children in his pool and that this had happened before the parents (he didn't tell anyone) knew he was a convicted pedophile but chose to withhold this extremely important information. In case anyone here doesn't know Miletti continuously sexually assaulted his biological daughter from age 6 to 16 when he was turned in.

The Miletti household also invited (on two occasions) children of another family on Wapello to their home. Fortunately the family with the kids received the flyer from, purportedly, Miletti's old church disclosing his felony conviction. She has stopped speaking to the Milettis and will not allow her children near them. Hong chose to not disclose this very important fact as well.

We are a live and let live street and think if someone has served their time they are entitled to a life un-harassed.

However (given Miletti's penchant to have kids to his house) we feel this man is very, very dangerous and should leave our neighborhood.

And, Peter Hong should be ashamed of himself for withholding this vital information. Talk about "main stream media" manipulation...

Re: The Molester On The Block

This is appalling, the guy basically raped and sexually abused his own daughter and he gets a "balanced" treatment article from the LA Times. The Times also chose to publish 2 letters to the editor sympathetic to Milletti. I know it's easy to be outraged at molestors, but why should people feel guilty for protecting their children and community for a guy who appears to have no guilt for his crime?

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