Should Child Predator Theodore Sypnier be Confined For Life Under New York Mental Health Civil Law?
While the public outcry raged across New York state and throughout America about the 100-year-old high-risk sexual predator being scheduled for release, both daughters of Theodore Sypnier and the two girls he was sent to prison for raping in 1999 have unified to work non-stop with state lawmakers to keep the him off the streets. Also on the agenda is the pressuring of the State Mental Health officials who have already rejected Sypnier for continuing treatment, to reconsider him for life confinement under the mental health statute. “The thought of Theodore Sypnier as a free man is a chilling prospect. He should never be allowed to even look at a child again,” a New York lawmaker wrote in a letter to the State Mental Health office. Three years before the law was passed, Republican New York assemblyman, James P. Hayes, even used Sypnier’s pedophile history as a “case in point” to sway the state to pass a civil confinement law for repeat sex offenders.Aware of Sypnier’s release into a half
