100-Year-Old Child Molester Back in Jail

April 19, 2010— -- Theodore Sypnier, 100, is New York State's oldest registered sex offender and is back where he belongs, prison, according to the director of a halfway house where Sypnier had been living.

"He remained adamant that he was going to continue his behavior of molesting children. As a father myself, I'm glad to see him back in jail," Rev. Terry King, executive director of Grace House, a halfway house in Buffalo, N.Y., told ABC News today.

Sypnier has been brought back to the Erie County Holding Center where he will be held in a 20-person unit for vulnerable prisoners, a source at the jail who wished not to be named told ABC News.

"He shuffles around and no one picks on him other than cracking wise about his age. All he eats is soup," the source said, adding that nobody visits Sypnier, who happens to be a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

Sypnier was convicted in 2000 at age 90 of raping and sodomizing two young sisters in Tonawanda, N.Y. It was the latest conviction for a man accused of over 60-years of child molestation.

He was released from prison in 2008. During that stint in the Groveland Correction Facility, Sypnier turned 100, making him the oldest sex offender in New York and second oldest in the country, three years younger than Bert Jackson of Utah.

Sypnier was sent to Grace House after to his release, yet was put back in prison for refusing to attend mandated sex offender classes. He was again released last fall, and according to King continued his refusal to accept responsibility for his behavior and would not attend classes.

His refusal to attend the classes was a violation of his parole and the New York State Board of Parole imposed the maximum punishment recommended for Sypnier: two more years back in prison, Carole Claren-Weaver, spokeswoman for the Board of Parole, told ABC News.

Sypnier's first conviction came in 1987, when he was given three years probation for sex abuse. In 1994 he was given a year in prison for sexually abusing a minor. Follwing those convictions authorities have said in reports that a flood of family members and neighbors have come forward saying Sypnier molested them while they were growing up, although those accusations did not lead to any convictions.