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Upstate New York struggling with 100-year-old "unrepentant pedophile"

By Douglas A. Berman

Here is a local story that would seem like a bawdy joke if it was not so serious.  The piece from The Buffalo News is headlined "Oldest sex offender about to be freed here: 100-year-old pedophile unrepentant awaiting move to E. Side apartment," and here are the details: Theodore A. Sypnier is a century old, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him or talking with him. He is highly alert, physically active and very capable of living alone and taking care of himself. Theodore A. Sypnier also is a pedophile. He has been convicted at least twice of molesting children and suspected in other cases over the last six decades in the Town of Tonawanda and Buffalo, and psychologists, police and others say he is likely to molest children again. Therein lies a big problem...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).