Cobb field director charged with violating sex offender employment restrictions

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday arrested Paul Littlejohn III, the Jefferson County field director for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Bell Cobb, charging him with violating Alabama’s sex offender laws.

Littlejohn, 55, was convicted in 1985 of the rape and sodomy of a 30-year-old woman, according to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency records. He was released in 2014 and was placed on Alabama’s sex offender registry.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said they received a tip that Littlejohn was working as a pastor at a Jefferson County church. Earlier in the week, AL.com reported that Littlejohn was working at Greater Shilo Missionary Baptist Church, which operates daycare on its campus and sits next to an elementary school.

Alabama’s sex offender laws prohibit sex offenders from working or living near an elementary school or a day care, and a violation of the law is a felony.

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