Convicted sex offenders in Ohio can't live near a school or daycare. But they can live next door to their victims.

State lawmakers want to change that.

The Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 102 , which would prohibit anyone convicted of a sex offense or child-victim offense like kidnapping from knowingly living within 2,000 feet of their victims or loitering within 1,000 feet of them.

The bill does not require anyone to sell property they owned before they were convicted as a sex offender or child-victim offender.

Republican Rep. Roy Klopfenstein introduced the bill after a constituent brought the problem to his attention. A neighbor had abused the man's 6-year-old daughter.

"This little girl is now afraid to even play in her backyard because he lives so close," said K

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