I scream, you scream, if a predator serves ice cream
The Oklahoma Senate has approved a bill banning registered sex offenders from operating ice cream vending trucks. “Ice cream trucks are an important part of childhood; they should not be ways for predators to lure children,” sponsor Jay Paul Gumm, a Democrat, told the Durant Daily Democrat.
The move to ban convicted predators from the trucks started with the 2004 arrest in Troy, N.Y., of a driver for Mr. Ding a Ling. Eduardo Grau, an Argentine national, was sentenced to two years in prison after confessing to kissing and fondling a 9-year-old girl. Grau was deported in 2006.
His case resulted in a 2005 law in New York and in various communities around the country, including Tucson and San Antonio. The Oklahoma bill, which is supported by the ice cream vending industry, now goes to the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
