State Paid Sex Offenders to Baby Sit Children When people say we need more government to solve our problems, cases like this come to mind. From the Chicago Tribune Cornelius Osborne may not seem like baby-sitting material. He was convicted of raping two women. A succession of felonies, from robbery to failing to register as a sex offender, repeatedly sent him to prison, state records show. But over more than two years, the state paid Osborne nearly $5,000 to baby-sit two children, before his latest conviction — for dealing drugs — put ... Read More