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Ottawa upset U.S. man sentenced to parole in Canada
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| Last Edited | Penguin Oct 25, 2006 08:32pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Thursday, October 26, 2006 02:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government said on Tuesday it was most unhappy that a U.S. judge had sentenced a sex offender to a three-year term of "exile" in Canada rather than a jail sentence at home.
The New York state judge accepted a proposal from former teacher Malcolm Watson, 35 -- convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl -- that he be allowed to live in Canada on probation and not spend time in a U.S. jail.
Watson, a U.S. citizen, lives in the town of Fort Erie, Ontario, with his wife and children. He had commuted to work at a girls' school in nearby Buffalo, New York.
The U.S. judge ruled Watson can return to the United States only to report to his parole officer.
"I was infuriated to see an American court decision deporting an American citizen back to my constituency," said government minister Rob Nicholson, who represents the electoral district in southern Ontario near Niagara Falls where Fort Erie is located. |
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