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For around two years now, I've worked as a low-rent security guard at St. Daniel's Mental Hospital facility in our town.

It's classified as a medium high-level security and contains forensic units where patients are held who have committed crimes, some sort, and been declared innocent by a reason of sanity.

I don't get many details about the history or crimes of the patients, except for nurses who mention something in passing.

In the law, after a code-white or in the cafeteria, someone would let something slip.

The one who acts like a dog and howls drinks from toilets during full moons, he killed his little sister and his friends.

Or watch out for that one. He's unpredictable. He's in here for strangling someone on the city bus.

And we're pretty sure he's bringing in crack from the outside and selling it.

I might pick up all kinds of tidbits.

I was on a first-name basis and had a friendly rapport built up with one patient and him, Sam.

So a nurse let it slip that he was a child molester.

Serial child molester.

I couldn't look him in the eye after hearing that.

Although I never knew for sure if it was actually true.

I mean, he was a small chubby toe of a man, goofy smile, curment the frog voice.

I thought he looked harmless enough until I pictured him standing over a child in a dark room somewhere.

Despite all that, most of the patients and the facility were actually pretty pleasant.

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