Illinois paid sex offenders as baby sitters

The Chicago Tribune front page headline story:

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

Some people believe there's no such thing as failure in government.