State paid sex offenders as baby sitters

State paid sex offenders as baby sitters - chicagotribune.com:

TRIBUNE WATCHDOG State program subsidizing child care for poor families allows violent felons access to children

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 him back behind bars.