Sex Offender Steals Cell Mates Identity to Avoid Sex Offender Registry

For 54-year-old Seattle Washington resident Maxie Moore, doing hard time was just another opportunity to continue his criminal ways. During his sentence at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center, Moore obtained the identity information of an undisclosed fellow inmate and when he was released, Moore successfully impersonated the inmate to avoid having to register as a sex offender.

According to court documents, Moore had been arrested in the past for the sexual abuse of young daughters of women he met through online social networking sites.

Moore’s criminal history is one of catch and release, with each jaunt of freedom leading to increasingly depraved criminality and expertise at concealing his identity from law enforcement, the justice system and unsuspecting women and children.

According to court documents, in November 1999, he was sentenced to 71 months in custody for a scheme in which he used his deceased son’s Social Security Number to obtain benefits and open bank accounts.

“In that case Moore absconded from pretrial supervision and failed to show up for sentencing, resulting in a more lengthy prison term. In addition to the fraud scheme, Moore was also arrested three times for alleged sexual abuse of minor females,” court documents show. Moore pleaded guilty to Misdemeanor Contributing to the Sexual Delinquency of a Minor. The judge ordered Moore to have no unsupervised contact with minors and to undergo sex offender treatment.

Yet, Moore’s sexual deviancy did not abate. After his release from prison in 2006, Moore was taken back into custody twice for violating the terms of his supervised release. In September 2007, he  returned to prison for seven months for having unsupervised contact with a minor female, blatantly against the Judge’s order.

It was during this return to prison at SeaTac Federal Detention Center that Moore met the inmate whose identity he later assumed.

“When agents of the fugitive task force caught up with Moore in 2008, they learned he had been living with a woman and her young daughter. Further investigation revealed that he had had a series of relationships with women who had young daughters. Moore had sought out these women on internet sites such as Craigslist,” according to court documents.

During the sentencing hearing, the judge ordered Moore to register as a sex offender, saying Moore “is a sociopath, he is a hebephile, he is a person who cannot do right by others.”  It is of little surprise that Moore wanted to conceal his recidivist predation on young girls by impersonating someone else.

Moore’s successful adoption of an alternate identity is a stark example of the need for Washington State to implement improvements at verifying that a person is who they say when they apply for a state issued identity document. While this type of deception is not limited to Washington, the state’s, relatively weak processes for confirming identities of driver’s license and ID card applicants creates a safe haven for child predators, deadbeat parents  and other absconders from the law, placing residents at risk.

A trusted identity document is not just important for identifying child predators, but for identifying abducted children as well. Many states offer identification cards to young children, Washington State allows parents to obtain a child ID as soon as the child is old enough to sit on a parent’s lap. In the event of abduction, police can quickly access a child’s person information and a high quality photo from state Department of Motor Vehicle records. That valuable time could be the difference between finding the child alive – or even at all.

CSDL is doing something about it!

The Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License recently piloted a program in Washington State with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula help parents obtain state issued identity cards or enhanced identity cards, which allow for land and sea border crossing between the US, Mexico and Canada, for their children at no cost. We are looking to expand our program in Washington State and across the country working with local community groups in other states.  If you have any interest in the program or are part of an interested community group, please contact the Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License at (202) 312-1540 or ChristianGleim@IDSecurityNow.org

 Original Story: http://www.theolympian.com/2010/05/29/1254536/felon-stole-id-of-fellow-inmate.html#ixzz0pcJUKS4o