Dorchester Times: Saline County Sees 45% Jump In Sex Offenders Since 2017

Friday, February 17, 2023

Saline County Sees 45% Jump In Sex Offenders Since 2017

The well-being of our youth is a top priority of the Dorchester Times.

To help parents, grandparents and caregivers take appropriate steps to ensure their children's safety, we are publishing this post.

Nebraska law recognizes that sex offenders present a high risk as repeat offenders. For that reason, sex offenders must register as provided by the state's Sex Offender Registration Act.

Under state law, there are three levels of registered sex offenders -- those who must register for 15 years, 25 years, and life. The duration is based on the seriousness of the crime.

This information is used to provide public notices and information so Nebraska communities can develop reasonable plans to safeguard children and teens. You have a right to know.

There are currently 32 registered offenders in Saline County, according to the Nebraska government site. That's an increase of 10 offenders since 2017.

The registry's map shows one offender in Dorchester.

There are 13 in Crete (up two since 2017); seven in Wilber (up three since 2017); three in Friend (up two since 2017); one near Tobias; two in Western; one in Swanton; one near Pleasant Hill; two in DeWitt; and one near Tobias.

In other nearby communities, Milford has two offenders (with three more in the nearby countryside); Seward has 10; Lincoln has hundreds.

Know your neighbors. Click here to see if there are any registered offenders in your area.

To see the list of registered sex offenders in Saline County, click here.

10 comments:

AnonymousMarch 15, 2017 at 8:23 PM
SHAME ON YOU! EVERYONE DERSERVES A 2ND CHANCE! YOU ARE JUST SO PERFECT THERE ON YOUR LITTLE BLOG THAT IT MAKES ME SICK! I HATE ALL OF YOU!
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cynical richardMarch 15, 2017 at 9:26 PM
................ those 11 in crete dont have to leave town ............ they are already big pieces of ex-cretion in my book.......................
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AnonymousMarch 16, 2017 at 6:27 PM
Child molesters do not deserve a second chance.
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AnonymousMarch 17, 2017 at 7:08 PM
Sometimes you need to know the facts before you judge. It doesn't take raping a child anymore to get on this list. There are some ppl who have been convicted that are innocent and some who were 19 dating a 17 yr old and someone got mad. There is always two sides to every story. And yes, there are the horrible wastes of oxygen who should be strung up and lynched on there too. I'm just saying not to judge until you know the entire story about someone.
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2020 at 1:45 PM
Tobias doubled in number of sex offenders when Derek Logue, anti-registry activist and child molester, moved in with Will Bassler.
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AnonymousOctober 4, 2023 at 7:26 PM
Most sex offenses occur at home, by someone known to the victim, and most sex crime arrests are of people with no prior record. Most on the list never reoffend.

You people need to do real research instead of posting typical fearmongering nonsense.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."