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Defrocked Davenport Priest James Janssen was found guilty of sexually abusing his nephew, James Wells, in a civil court in May. But since Janssen was found guilty in a civil court and not on criminal charges, his name isn't on the sex offender registry. On Thursday Wells went out to warn Janssen's neighbors that they are living next to a pedophile. But the reaction Wells got from neighbors and Janssen himself was more explosive than he imagined.
Seventeen-year-old Paula Lisenbee was upset when she went out to her car an saw a flyer on her windshield claiming that her neighbor, James Janssen, was a pedophile.
"I mean who wants to wake up in the morning, got out to their car and see this (flyer of Janssen) is a sexual predator? You need to protect your children?" says Lisenbee.
Paula Lisenbee has lived in the same building as Janssen for three years. She says he's always been a gentlemen and that posting notices saying he's a sexual predator is nothing but a glorified witch hunt. James Janssen himself promptly started taking fliers, displaying his face, off of cars.