Long-ago charge to cost man his home.

Publication: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)

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Byline: Denise-Marie Balona and Rebecca Mahoney

Mar. 21--DELTONA -- After the birth of his first daughter in 1986, Juan Matamoros decided to party. What he says he did afterward was not uncommon, but it has haunted him and his family for more than 20 years. Matamoros said he had to use the bathroom so badly he stopped to go on the side of the road. The incident landed him in jail and labeled him a sexual offender. It's also forcing the 49-year-old welder, his wife and their two young sons out of their home in Deltona, which last year imposed a strict ordinance on where sexual offenders can live. "It's been a nightmare, let me tell you," Matamoros said from the Volusia County Branch Jail, where he was sent last week for violating probation on a separate charge of cocaine possession with the intent to sell, a felony to which he pleaded no contest last year. Matamoros' troubles began with his arrest on Sept. 28, 1986, in the Boston...

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