Margaret ran a non-profit girls and boys club. She performed a statewide criminal record investigation on all employees and thought she was safe when she hired Lee as a janitor. Months later, she received an anonymous letter notifying her that Lee had been convicted of child molestation. The letter included a copy of Lee's record from another state's sexual offender index. Margaret had missed the criminal conviction since it occurred in a state where Lee had previously lived and where a statewide search was unavailable. Lee had worked in the girls and boys club for the past six months and had numerous opportunities to be alone with the children. Margaret owed it to the children and her staff to terminate Lee's employment and to add sexual offender index searches to her employment screening program.
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