Sociopaths do not change. As living proof, consider the case of Theodore Sypnier.
Sypnier is a convicted child molester. He is 100 years old. He is about to be paroled, and the city of Buffalo, New York, is on edge. According to an article by the Associated Press:
“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.”
The incident that landed him in jail took place in 1999, when Sypnier was 90 years old. He was babysitting two girls—portraying himself as a friendly grandpa—and he molested them. The girls were ages four and seven at the time.
Even though he pleaded guilty—twice—Sypnier claims his case was a miscarriage of justice. “Those children crawled into bed with me because they were frightened, but there was never any sexual hanky-panky,” he told the Buffalo News.
Yeah, right.
This wasn’t Sypnier’s first arrest. In 1987, he was given three years’ probation for sex abuse—he was 78 years old then. In 1994, at the age of 85, he spent a year in prison for sexually abusing a minor. Who knows what he got away with during his life—his daughter came forward and said he abused her as she was growing up.
The former Erie County District Attorney, Frank J. Clark, said that as long as Sypnier “can walk and talk, he remains a threat.”
Here is more information about the case:
Oldest sex offender about to be freed here, in the Buffalo News.
100-year-old N.Y. child molester to be freed, on Msnbc.com.
For more eye-popping stories, take a look at the Parents for Megan’s Law website page on Senior Sex Offenders.
Sociopaths do not change
Some researchers and mental health professionals have said that sociopaths may “improve” with age. Do not take this as a reason to hope. A more accurate description may be that senior sociopaths no longer have the energy to pull off the stunts that they did in their youth, or they may not have the stamina to be violent. But they do not change.
I’ve received several e-mails from Lovefraud readers describing sociopathic women, now well beyond “a certain age,” who are as mean and manipulative as ever. Several sociopathic women plotted to pit their children against each other. One woman is swindling friends to obtain a free place to live. Another, after her husband’s death, played the sweet, bereaved widow so she could quickly move on to the next meal ticket.
A few months ago, I heard that my ex-husband, who is now 68, is still trying to find sugar mommas on the Internet. He talks a good game, and writes convincing e-mails. But when it comes time to close the deal, to try to convince a woman that they really were meant for each other, and they’ve been waiting all their lives for each other, all he can do is fall asleep on the couch.
It seems that the only way these people will stop is if they suffer a debilitating stroke. As long as a sociopath can talk or communicate in any way, he or she will continue to manipulate.
matt:
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Yea, I’ve had fun finding all the miscreants in my family, but as they say in prof genealogical circles, “Mama’s baby, daddy’s—MAYBE!” We are assuming that all our grandmothers were chaste inidividuals and as we know that is not always the case! So since there is at least (by some studies) at LEAST a 10% chance in EACH generation that the baby wasn’t really daddy’s, if you add that up over 10 generations there is almost a 100% chance that there is some “different blood” in there somewhere. LOL
A Midwife who kept statistics from the revolutionary period to oafter 1815 found that 40% of FIRST babies were conceived OUT of wed lock even in those days! Most of those couples married, however, as giving birth to a “bastard” was a pretty public offense even up to Revolutionary times, gaining the mother a nice 50 lashes laid on her bare back in public if the child became a “ward” of the Parish. Indenture of very young children was essentially “foster care” where the master got the child’s labor until adulthood, on the promise of teaching the child a trade. Bastards, however, were sometimes kept in indenture til 30 years of age since the person taking them in had to raise them for 8-10 years before they were useful to the master.
An indentured woman who gave birth was added a year to her intenture term even if her master was the daddy. Plus, he got the kid too. (shaking head here).
My favorite ancestor was a Revolutionary era counterfiter who was judged “not guilty” by JURY NULLIFICATION even though he was caught red handed with the counterfit coins hidden in a trunk in his house. LOL I’m glad of that since he was a younger man at the time and they might have hanged him before my ancestor his son was born! LOL
To me, genealogy is like a detective game, but it certainaly isn’t for “glorification’ of my ancestors—though I have found some that were probably pretty descent folks, there are a lot more I think that I wouldn’t have liked very much at all. I also doubt that many of them would have been very proud of an “uppity woman” for a descendant!
I love history and studying about people’s religions, their political and social ideas and thought are very interesting to me, as well as their customs, prejudices etc. but if you look back at “history” of a city, nation, culture, people, race, religion etc. all it proves is that people are still people and have always pretty much been PEOPLE—some of them good, some bad and the majority in the middle. The world has never been a “safe” place, no one gets out alive, but actually, in spite of my cynicism about politicians this is a pretty good time in which we live, in a pretty good country. We just have to work on ourselves to learn how to watch for the “bad guys” and listen to our instincts for self preservation. It’s all a learning curve, a life long journey…however l.ong it lasts and I’m gonna do my best to live in the NOW and enjoy every minute of it I can.
At 100, he may even be more of a threat if he feels he has nothing left to lose. What a creepy story.
Star:
Yah, we call that ACCESS.
I was part of a 12 step program for many years and finally left when I could no longer deal with the flagrant predatory nature of the OLD GRANDPA in the group.
I used all the normal routes to deal with this predator that exist within that structure and got NOWHERE. And neither did the woman who did it after me. We both left.
I used to warn young women about him – and that was a No NO!
yah, right. abstinence was sweet, but having to lose my sense of ethics and self to maintain it wasn’t.
one step
I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t want to be in a group with a sociopath either. In fact if my ex, the S, ever shows up on my reptile site again, and my friends aren’t able to run him off, I will probably just leave the site. They are disgusting.
My ex looks a lot like Tiger Woods in technicolor
Oxy – ps”“above post. My son cracked that “holding her in jail over night might be a LIFE SENTENCE.”
SNORT!
When I read the newstory I thought, ‘couldn’t she just have waited like, a few weeks…?’
That’s quite shocking – where do they find the energy?? Maybe being evil preserves the genes in some horrible way or gives them all super powers!
The devil, satan, was known as ‘the ape of god’. because they ,the spaths, have the same DNA as satan. They can only ape, or copy us, the cant generate their own creativity and light. The Light of the holy spirit which is in us, attracts them to us, like a moth to a candle. They love the light, but they cant supply it for themselves. I believe their main focus is unbelievable ENVY,and HATRED of us, and FEAR that they will be found out for the total fakes that they are.! Satan was cast out of Heaven for his overbearing pride, he wanted to be greater than God! They are like that, they try to keep up the pretence they ar faultless, superior, entitle beings! like satan, they have NO CONSCIENSE,no empathy, no compassion, they are really like robots. Once we get our head around the fact that they DONT CARE at all what happens to us, that we were only a source of supply to them, that we will NEVER EVER have closure from them, we will eventually move forward. Our only closure from them is NC, forever! They will never say sorry because they are NOT sorry. They have no guilt, remorse or shame, as they have dumped it all on us for years. Most of us bought the lie that deep down they are “nice people”, we just need to love them more, try harder to understand them, give give give until we are run dry! NO!! They are NOT NICE PEOPLE DEEP DOWN, they are EVIL ALIENS!!! who will suck us dry and step over our dead carcasses to get to the next victim.!! I cant tell you how it makes me feel to discover the truth re my daughters,NO
Dear Gem,
I hear the anger in your post, the RIGHTEOUS JUSTIFIED ANGER, the same anger I think He felt when Jesus saw the hypocrits profaning the Temple when he made the whip of cords and drove them out!
Justifiable ANGER gives us energy to do what we have to do to separate ourselves physically and emotionally from these parasites of the soul, who DO CRAVE what we have, and they can only fake.
Whatever the problem, whether it is envy, greed, pure malice, or just “don’t care” attitude, the bottom line is that they are NOT the same as we are. There is genetics, there is environment but as a wise friend of mine has said, THERE IS ALOS THE CHOICES that they make to do and behave the way they do. CHOICE. They HAVE A CHOICE each time they do something, just like we do.
Even when we are JUSTIFIABLY ANGRY, Jesus advised us to “be angry and sin not” so ANGER even justifiable and righteous anger doesn’t give us leave to BE and ACT like they do, but anger itself will spur us on to taking care of ourselves, and doing what is RIGHT, standing up for right, standing up for ourselves and NC—NC FOREVER!!!! (((hugs)))) I am so glad that my prayers for your strength and justifiable anger have been answered! (((( I admire you sweet Gem for your wonderful heart!)
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I went on to say that the day I really GOT IT, ie, what my daughters were REALLY like, I was sick in the toilet all day.This was approx six months ago.As oxy says, “the truth will set you free, but first it will pith you off!”
When I really GOT that my daughters DO NOT LOVe ME, that I am just some one to control and/or use,that all they can feel is envy, hatred and fear,{of being found out to be phoneys}, that they have NO KINDNESS Compassion, remorse, guilt, empathy, all the gifts that make us humans.
I went on to say that Job isa role model for me. he lost his wealth, his health, all his kids died,his cattle died,and his wife,{who sounds like a spath!} told him to “Curse god and Die”.
This good man refused to curse god,he didnt know what he had done to deserve such bad fortune, but he did not blame god for it. The result” the latter part of Jobs life was blessed and more fruitful than the first half.” His health was fully restored, he went on, in his old age to have more children,more livestock,in fact god blessed his socks off!
I look around me and find that god has richly blessed me.
I have a wonderful husband, great so in law, lovely G,Kids, a great new “adopted” adult family. I have a lovely home, no debts, a huge fruitful garden, busting at the seams with fruit, herbs, flowers, figs, paw paws,tomatoes. All around is the chattering of grateful birds which I feed, –Kookaburras, Magpies, herons, galahs, butcher birds, Lorikeets,{parrots}.
Im blessed going in, and blessed going out. I have good health, and one or two non spath friends.Like OXY Ive had to cut out false friends, who only used me and gave nothing back, Im learning fast.This will be the first Xmas I havent seen my spath daughter, I no longer have to “play nice”., just to get to see my G Kids,as their dad is bringing them over in the New year, ad they can get their gifts then. So, A Very Happy Xmas to all of us! A spath free xmas is a good Xmas!!
“And God bless us ,every one,!! “as Tiny Tim said!!Much Love, and {{HUGS!!!}} and TOWANDA!! from Gem.XXX