Back in jail: Years ago, a sex offender wrote "Dear Abby" about his fantasies, so what now?

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- 40-year-old Paul Weiser, a registered sex offender, has been out of jail on supervision living on the Milwaukee's south side. New charges came down on Friday, July 11th, and Weiser is back serving time.

Brandie Chidester knows what it's like to live across the street from a registered child sex offender, having two children herself.

"We had to live with this for the last eight, twelve years," says Chidester. "Kids always had to stay in the back. They're only in the front if I'm watching and if I kind of notice something that's like, quick get in the back or get in the house."

Paul Weiser is the guy in question on the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry. In 2012, Weiser was convicted of possessing child pornography. Back then, officials were tipped off by a famous national advice columnist. Weiser wrote Dear Abby looking for advice about his sexual fantasies with children.

After several years behind bars, Weiser was put on probation and lived under supervision with a relative in this neighborhood bordering Milwaukee and Greenfield. On Friday, July 11th, he was charged again, accused of videotaping neighborhood children and photographing other children in a department store parking lot.

A criminal complaint says the Wisconsin Department of Justice got involved when a wholesaler in Seattle noticed Weiser trying to order figurines that appeal to girls. The Seattle business owner discovered Weiser was a sex offender. She also discovered his Pinterest account, where he posted things he loved -- girls in suggestive poses.

DOJ agents discovered Weiser had a computer, camera, flash drive, and more recording and internet devices banned for sex offenders.

Brandee Chidester is relieved Weiser is back in jail, but wonders about the things she doesn't know. "Who knows if my kids were videotaped, that's even scarier," said Chidester. Chidester tells FOX6 News, there's a little bit of her that feels like he wanted help and never got it, when he wrote the Dear Abby and got arrested instead, way back in 2002.