Is there any justification for Natural LIfe or Castration for a Pedophile
At 100 years-old this old man is an unrepentant child molestor. Is this a case to justify a natural life prison sentence, which is very costly to society, execution which is also very costly and may be too severe; or is this man and society better served in such cases to approve forced physical or chemical castration?
Had he been castrated years ago perhaps he could have led a productive live outside prison and children would be 100% safe. I now that sounds severe, what if he is later found innocent? It seems to me that with repeat offenses and no demonstration of an ability to restrain his behavior, castration is the most humane sentence.
Everything that pedophile Theodore Sypnier has to show for his 100 years on Earth is packed in a single duffel bag as he prepares to begin a new chapter in life: freedom.
It’s a chapter that prosecutors, judges and others who know him never wanted - or expected - to see written.
New York’s oldest registered sex offender is scheduled to move by week’s end out of a Buffalo halfway house for released inmates and into a place of his own, after completing his latest term in state prison for molesting little girls.
The judge who sentenced him said at the time that she expected him to die behind bars.
But 10 years after his last arrest, as Sypnier prepared to shed the closely monitored lifestyle of the halfway house, its director warned that the spry and active Sypnier has not changed from the manipulator who used his grandfatherly charm to snare and rape victims as young as 4.
“Whether he’s 100 or 101 or 105, the same person that was committing these crimes 10, 25, 30 years ago still exists today and has an unrepentant heart,” said the Rev. Terry King, director of Grace House, which has twice taken Sypnier in from prison. “He is someone that we as parents, as members of the community, any community, really need to fear.
