Thomas Jefferson, 43, was part of a crew subcontracted by Verizon installing cable in a subdivision in Glen Allen, VA, when police say he went to a house where a 13 year old girl was home alone and asked for a drink of water. NBC12 says that after he asked for the water he “touched the girl in her private areas.”
“We hope that parents will talk with their kids and remind them to never let a stranger in your house,” says Henrico Police Lt. Doug Perry. “Either act like you’re not there or say your mom and dad are in the bathroom or whatever, to make them think that a parent is present.”
Jefferson is a registered sex offender who was convicted of rape 1984.
Please remember to always ask for ID and never let strangers into your home when you are alone. Even if they really work for the cable company.
UPDATE: This guy works for Double J Communications, which was working for a subcontractor to S&N Communications, which in turn was working on contract with Verizon. Verizon has asked S&N to terminate the contract with Double J.
Cable worker charged for allegedly touching girl in Henrico
[NBC12]
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It is to bad that this happened but it doesn’t really seem to me that it was Comcast’s fault. The guy was working on a crew that was not entering peoples homes. He left the job site and went to someones home. It is not like a school hiring a registered pedophile (and that sadly happens far too often).
This is Jenni Moyer with Comcast. Please note that we have confirmed this is not a Comcast employee or a contractor as noted in your post. As reported by other media outlets ([www.wtvr.com]), he was a contractor for Double J Communications, which was working for another provider in the Henrico area. Please correct your original post. Thank you.
Someo@JenniMoyer: @heavylee-again: @testsicles: @crabbyman6: @satoru: We should all sue Comcast. This is beyond sick and disgusting.
@JenniMoyer: Probably better if you contacted The Consumerist editors directly. They’re pretty cooperative, and might not skim through all these comments.
As others have pointed out this guy was with a contracter for verizon, not comcast. Points for consumerist for not doing any reasearch before posting this bashing comcast when the article they linked didn’t even say anything about them.
Anyway this is in my area(I live in henrico) and saw this on news 6. Sucks but this comes with contractors. You don’t always know who they hire.
Don’t most cable companies require their technicians to make sure an adult is home for this very reason?
Not a Comcast employee, not even a Comcast story! This was for a Verizon drop bury job. I wouldn’t even blame Verizon for this. I would blame his parents.
real story
[www.wtvr.com]
Consumerist, I know you hate Comcast, but at least get the story right. Stop trying to fox news us!
@Manator (Follow me and die!): Well, since Comcast has nothing to do with this (It was a Verizon sub-contractor), I doubt suing Comcast will do anything.
@JenniMoyer: Since I was the first to point out that this wasn’t a Comcast employee, I think I should be entitled to a free month of cable/internet. I mean, it’s the least you could do.
@HollerJoller: Stop trying to fox news us!
“Comcast employees give each other terrorist fist-jabs”
@HollerJoller: Stop trying to fox news us!
But Comcast is giving each other terrorist fist jabs while showing powerpoints about sex offenders to each other!
@testsicles: Read the article – he was a hired ditch digger, not a residential installer. He’s still a scumbag though, and I doubt “Double J Communications” will hire any more sex offenders to dig ditches.
I don’t see how Verizon could have avoided this, though. And Comcast is 100% blameless.
This is such a mess. At least it gave us something to gripe about for a few hours.
Still, Comcast is in the Elite 8 for the Worst Company, and I think that suffices for now since this is supposedly bogus.
Meg – it looks like you really should make a correction on this pretty quickly…
@utensil42: I’ve looked around quite a bit to find my state’s (NJ), but found nothing. My daughter turns 12 in September, so I’d really like to know if there is a law concerning this.
@ClayS: [wiki.answers.com]
Your state is probably one that does not have a specific law about this, not all of them do.
This girl had it coming. She knew what was going to happen when she let this guy in. Thanks to the media and shitty parents, girls are actively trolling for sex by about 11 or 12 or so. That is reality. It just happens to be illegal to touch them.
@linus: I’m sure that this is exactly what happened, but it’s an explanation, not an excuse. Any company with a field team which enters people’s homes should have some sort of internal screening to weed out convicted sex offenders, thieves, etc. Though, from the stories you see here about telecom field techs, I would think this would leave them with a very small work force.
Consumerist has been publishing a lot of errors these days, particularly when relating to favorite targets (cf. two misleading articles about Comcast today). I know there are pressures to post articles quickly and in volume, but this sort of thing needs to be corrected, as it only undermines the credibility of the site.
This guy is a suck fuck, whcih y’all have already said quite eloquently. But why does news feel the need to say “private area?” That drives me nuts. Genitals, people. Unless you’re directly quoting the girl’s description of what happened, say genitals or vagina or something.
Thomas Jefferson, gold!
Can someone tell me if the sex offenders can travel to other countries, or they are confined to the country where they are? Thanks. And he should have never been hired.
@AtomicPlayboy and everyone else:
This scumbag was not a residential installer. He’s part of the street crews that have been laying the fiber trunks around here for the last few months…hell, he was probably working on my street two weeks ago.
It’s the girl’s fault for not wearing True Love Waits sweats.
doesn’t the article say VERIZON?
How did comcast get brought into this?
Rumour is, after he touched her, he said, “Wow!”
Rumour is, after he touched her, he said, “WOW”
Two issues here: We’ve got to pressure companies to run a sex offender background check before these creeps are allowed contact with the public. Huge problems exist with all big corp’s from Burger King and MacDonalds staff to gas pumpers, utility company readers, hosital attendants, bus drivers, and many more.
On problems with Comcast: Email the the CEO. His address was provided on this site–many thanks to the person who posted it! I was sooooo frustrated with customer service was lacking that when I searched “CEO Comcast email,” I found this site and the needed contact info in seconds. Within an hour of my email, his staff called me. They gracious, found the problem, fixed it, and comp’ed me my June bill. That’s good service.
Happy birthday Mr. President?
Poor girl…
Thomas came back from the dead to rape kids? Hmmm.
i think verizon needs to do a whole lot more than cancel a contract
the courts are responsible too for letting that predator back on the streets