Carny gets 21 months for not registering as sex offender
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A New York man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to serve 21 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender after coming to Rhode Island to work with a traveling carnival. Leonard F. Roupe, 51, of Watertown, N.Y., in January pleaded guilty to the crime, admitting that between April 27, 2008, through June 5, 2008, when he was arrested, that he knowingly failed to register as a sex offender while working in Rhode Island. Federal prosecutors say Roupe knew he was required to register as a sex offender in any new state in which he traveled after being convicted of a sex offense in Georgia in 1998. Roupe had come to the state with a carnival operated by Rockwell Amusement and Promotions Inc., a Rhode Island company, they said. 
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The bigger question for Judge Mary Lisi is not oonly whether this sex offender registered once in Rhode Island, but is the fact that he works as a CARNY for a traveling carnival which caters to CHILDREN and families with CHILDREN!!! Does no one else see the problem with that??????
What was she thinking?? How does she expect him to be monitored in that type of job?? This predator should not be in a job that promotes his proclivity to offend against children. It's like they're being handed to him on a silver platter!!
HELLO!!!!!
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How did they know he was one? Did he hurt a kid here?
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THIS IS AN AWESOME STORY. I COMMEND BOTH THE POLICE INVOLVED AND THE JUDGE ON A JOB WELL DONE.
HOWEVER, ROCKWELL AMUSEMENTS NEEDS TO DO A BCI ON THEIR PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES AS OBVIOUSLY THEY WILL HAVE LOTS OF CONTACT WITH KIDS BEING A CARNIVAL AND ALL.
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The article doesn't state what he was convicted for in 1998. It states "conviction for a sex act". This could range from exposing himself, to having consensual public sex with someone over the age of 18, to having sex with someone who didn't tell him their real age, to child molestation. Don't you think if it was towards a child, the article would have explicitly stated that?! Don't assume.
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