(WSBT) It's the truly scary part of Halloween night: sexual predators, handing candy to kids. And our cameras show there may be good reason for parents to keep an extra eye out.

Neither Indiana or Michigan has a law preventing sex offenders from handing out candy, but some are required by the terms of their parole to stay away from children.

There are nearly 300 registered sex offenders in South Bend alone.
We found porch lights on at some of their houses, waiting for kids to say "trick or treat."

Latrisha Turner and her two kids stopped at one, listed on the Indiana Sex Offender's Registry as the home of Dallas Nailon, a 42-year-old man convicted of rape, and now labeled on the website as a "sex predator."

When we went up to the house, the two men on the porch said Dallas wasn't there.

We asked if he lived there anymore.

"No," they both replied.

But that didn't make any difference to Latrisha.

"This is very scary to be here," she said. "It does, [make you a little unsettled,] yeah."

Dozens of other homes listed on the registry sat dark, with no porch lights on, including one less than a block away from a school, listed as the home of registered sex offender Alejerome Hill.

But a few blocks away, at the home of registered sex offender Sultin Williams, our cameras did capture a man at the door handing out candy to kids.

Their parents were also shaken.

"If we would've knew, we wouldn't have let them went up there," said their father Eugene Lauderdale.

"That's why we're walking them," agreed their mother Angela Hines.

But when we knocked on the door, the woman who answered said Sultin had left.

We asked if he had he been handing out candy.

"No, no," she replied.

"He doesn't do that at all?" we asked.

"No," she replied again.

We also found convicted child molester James French standing on his porch on South Bend's west side.

He said he didn't hand out any candy either, and his porch light was not on.

We asked if the terms of his parole prevent him from coming into contact with children.

"That's right," he replied.

"You're keeping everything legal tonight?" we asked.

"Yep," French replied. "[I'm] not even going outside."

But none of the promises make Latrisha Turner feel any better.

She says she'll be thinking twice from now on about where her kids go for treats, so she isn't tricked.

"Because that's very scary to know these people are walking around, and they could do anything to your kids," she said.

It's important to note that some sex offenders are prohibited from coming into contact with children, but not all sex offenders are. And none of the sex offenders we saw broke any laws.

But a new bill proposed in Michigan could change that. It would ban any sex offender from handing out candy to trick or treaters.

And after our investigation, Indiana State Representative Jackie Walorski says she plans to propose a similar bill in Indiana when lawmakers return to Indianapolis in November.

She hopes it will be passed, and in effect by next year.