Norwich — The Broad Street Area Neighborhood Watch will meet tonight to discuss the status of a controversial state-subsidized apartment house at 152 Broad St. that has been housing registered sex offenders since last summer. 

The group will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Latham Science Center at Norwich Free Academy. Members will discuss the status of the house at 152 Broad St., as well as child, elderly and family safety and police updates. A discussion of neighborhood blight also is on the agenda. 

The neighborhood watch group was revived last fall after neighbors discovered in August that registered sex offenders receiving state rental subsidies through the REACH — Re-entry Assisted Community Housing — program had been placed in the house. 

Although the four REACH beds are not reserved for sex offenders, a majority of the tenants thus far have been convicted sex offenders on the state Sex Offender Registry. As of Sunday, four sex offenders were listed as living at the house. 

The most recent resident is Rodney Whitaker, 44, who was convicted in 1995 of first-degree sexual assault involving sexual intercourse with a child under age 13, according to the registry listing. 

Another resident, Robert Douchette, 43, who was released from prison Nov. 13, had pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault for repeatedly raping his former girlfriend, binding her wrists and threatening her with a knife in January 2010 in New London. She was finally able to escape and ran to a neighbor’s house naked and screaming. He was sentenced in December of 2011 to five years and three months in prison and five years of special parole. 

The registry also listed Carlos Cruz, 47, convicted in 2008 of risk of injury to a minor, and Christopher DePallo, 23, on probation since July 2014 for third-degree possession of child pornography, as living at 152 Broad St.

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