‘Reformed’ Child Sex Offender Had Name Removed From Registry, Arrested On 9 New Child Sexual Assault Charges

A so-called “reformed” child sex offender was arrested after he got caught for a collection of child sex abuse crimes that allegedly took place as late as 2020.

Derrick Crooms, a 45-year-old suspect, had been placed on a child sex abuse registry after he received similar convictions in 1996. However, he was able to find a judge dumb enough to remove his name from the registry in 2017 when he convinced the judge that he was a reformed man and that he was living a decent life.

Earlier this month, federal marshals along with the Sheriff’s offices of Newton & Oconee County, Georgia, grabbed Crooms, placed him into custody and hit him with two counts each of incest, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated child molestation and child molestation, and for good measure, one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes. Citizen of the year, he’s not.

If he’s proven guilty of these charges. we should bury this guy under the prison.

Crooms is being held without bail in the Newton County Detention Center.

Lindsay Marchant, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said in a statement that the agency started investigating Crooms back in December 2020.

“In December 2020, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit received a request for assistance from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office in the investigation of numerous sex offenses against children by Crooms,” Marchant said in the news release. “The investigation revealed that these crimes allegedly occurred in Newton County, Georgia, as well as several different locations throughout the United States.”

A past victim of a previous crime Crooms committed was instrumental in helping capture the in 2020 and spoke out responding to the latest charges as reported by WAGA-TV.

Jeanie Fulcher, who is now 34, said of Crooms, “He took my innocence when I was seven. I don’t know if you can ever really heal from that.”

And Jesus wept.

Fulcher made it a point to mention that even though she pleaded and begged to not allow Crooms’ name to be removed from the sex offender list, he was able to get the judge to go along with it.

“Their argument was that he was a changed man, and he was a model citizen that didn’t get in trouble anymore, hasn’t committed crimes since,” she said.

She added, “I do think that our justice system has failed us. I believe that once you plead guilty to raping children, molestation charges, you shouldn’t get out of prison at all. You shouldn’t get a second chance.”

Crooms only serve four of the twenty-year sentence he received for his crimes against innocent children before he was released from prison for the 1996 convictions, able to prey on more children.

That’s what wrong with our criminal justice system. Children are the most vulnerable people in any society. When you have a man who was convicted of multiple child sexual assault charges, you keep him in prison the whole sentence. Maybe they can’t be reformed, but while they are inside, they’re not hurting more innocent children.