BOSTON — Another scandal is rocking Mayor Michelle Wu’s City Hall — and this one’s straight out of a bad Netflix docuseries.

A twice-convicted child sex offender was quietly working for the City of Boston’s Parks and Recreation Department — a role that put him in proximity to playgrounds, youth programs, and family events.

The bombshell, first reported by Boston Herald’s Gayla Cawley, revealed that Robert M. Claud, 37, of Dorchester — a Level 3 sex offender, the highest risk category — was on the city payroll until this past Tuesday, Aug. 12.

Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, all from 2013. Level 3 offenders, according to the state, are the ones you absolutely do not want working anywhere near kids.

Yet City Hall hired him last year as a heavy motor equipment operator and laborer. In 2024, taxpayers handed him $19,931, including $2,868 in overtime — all for a job in the very department that runs Boston’s parks, playgrounds, and “family-friendly” programming.

Wu’s office only confirmed Claud’s employment after repeated press inquiries and still won’t say whether he was fired or just walked away. The official statement: “Robert Claud is not a City of Boston employee.” Translation: we’d rather you stop asking questions.

The city’s own CORI policy claims to screen for jobs with direct contact with children. But Claud’s public sex offender registry entry still lists 275 Canterbury St. in Roslindale — the Parks Department maintenance yard — as his workplace.

If this feels like déjà vu, that’s because it is. Wu’s payroll already features Samantha Peracchi — accused of attacking a female bartender in the North End — still drawing checks. Then there’s Daunasia Yancey, the Wu aide whose felony larceny charge vanished into a CWOF deal. Because in Massachusetts, “soft on crime” isn’t a slogan — it’s a lifestyle.

One predator in Parks and Rec, one alleged brawler, one insider with a get-out-of-felony-free card. Wu’s City Hall is starting to look less like a government and more like a reality show where the casting director has… let’s just say bold tastes.

The Wu administration has yet to explain how a man convicted of sexually assaulting children ended up in a city job that brushes right up against playgrounds. But based on recent hiring trends, maybe the better question is: who’s next?