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Generally speaking, sex offenders are not highly regarded within the community. But in some states, like Michigan, the laws may be a bit too broad when you look at the case of this guy who once slept with a 15-year-old when he was 17-years-old and now isn’t allowed to play basketball in his driveway.

Matthew Freeman is struggling to move on with his life, six years after being convicted of having sex with a high school girlfriend who was one year below the legal age of consent.

Freeman, who is required to register as a sex offender, is facing a new criminal charge that accuses him of illegally living within 1,000 feet of a school.

According to a police report, a state trooper pulled up to Freeman’s house across the street from Ann Arbor’s Carpenter Elementary School, where children were on the playground at 7:30 p.m.

Freeman told the trooper he was on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry because he had “sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend when he was 17.” He also said his girlfriend’s mother got “upset with him and pressed charges.”

Freeman, 23, is charged with a school safety zone residency violation, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. He was arraigned Dec. 4 and is scheduled to return to court Friday.

“I’m outside sweating hard, playing basketball, working on my drills,” he said. “I ain’t looking at no kids. I can’t even go outside and play basketball on my own hoop?”

[Ann Arbor]

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