Corrected News Release
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
District of Rhode Island
June 9, 2009
Carnival worker sentenced to 21 months for
failing to register as a sex offender
On June 1, 2009, a federal judge sentenced Leonard F. Roupe, age 51, a resident of Watertown, New York, to 21 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender after taking up employment in Rhode Island. Roupe pleaded guilty to that offense, admitting that from around April 27, 2008 through June 5, 2008, when he was arrested, he had taken up employment in Rhode Island but had knowingly failed to register as a sex offender with Rhode Island officials.
United States Attorney Robert Clark Corrente announced the sentence, which Judge Mary M. Lisi imposed yesterday in U.S. District Court, Providence. Judge Lisi also prohibited Roupe from having any unsupervised contact with children during a three year term of federal supervision that follows his term of incarceration.
At the plea hearing in January, Assistant U.S. Attorney Milind Shah said the government could prove that in 1998 Roupe had been convicted of a sex offense in Georgia, that he knew that as a result of that sex offense, he was required to register as a sex offender in any new state to which he traveled, and that he had come to Rhode Island with a traveling carnival, and had failed to register.
The United States Marshall Service conducted the investigation. Roupe is the second sex offender prosecuted in Rhode Island under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which Congress enacted in 2006 as part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.
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