An Atlanta apartment complex hired a convicted child molester as a property manager who then preyed on kids living there, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
John Damon Braswell, 49, was given an apartment at the West Lake Avenue complex to which he lured two children, identified as A.R. and P.R., and sexually molested and abused them between March and May 2013, said the lawsuit filed in Fulton County State Court against the complex.
The lawsuit noted that Un Seok Park hired Braswell despite his being on the sex offender registery maintained by the state and the Fulton County Sheriff Office since he was released from prison in 2010 for a 1995 conviction.
“Defendants either knew that Braswell was a convicted child molester/registered sex offender and hired him anyway, or they failed to perform a reasonable background check which would have revealed those issues,” said the lawsuit filed by the children’s mother, whose is identified only by the inititals T.R.
Park, 49 of Lawrenceville, did not immediately return messages left for him requesting an interview with The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Braswell was arrested in 2013 for child molestation and later convicted. He began serving a 30-year sentence in Telfair State Prison in February.
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