New York authorities say they're getting ready to release a 100 year-old predatory pedophile, and they are warning he's still a danger.
From the Buffalo News:
"Theodore A. Sypnier is a century old, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him or talking to 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.
[...]
Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III says he has no
sympathy for Sypnier, who portrayed himself as a loving grandfather to
children he met.
Sypnier is the personification of evil and should be removed from
civilized society permanently, until the day he dies," Sedita said. "He
is an unrepentant child molester who has been doing this or trying to
do this for 60 years. He can't be cured. He's not sick. He's evil . He's
not old. He's evil."
Sedita's predecessor, Frank J. Clark, said Sypnier remains "manipulative and pathological," even as a centenarian.
"It's just that guile that allowed him to succeed for as many years as
he did. His daughter had come forward and said that he had molested her
when she was growing up," Clark said....
As long as Sypnier "can walk and talk, he remains a threat," Clark said.
The Rev. Terry King, who runs Saving Grace halfway house in the 1900
block of Bailey Avenue, reluctantly allowed Sypnier to stay there
temporarily.
"As a father, I would not want my child anywhere near him," King said....
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