Police issue warning about sex offender
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An 81-year-old sex offender was released from prison Friday and is considered to be a threat to adolescent girls, Winnipeg police warned Friday.
William Rupert Astle was released from Stony Mountain Institution after serving his latest sentence of more than four years.
He’s expect to live in Winnipeg, police said.
Astle has strict parole conditions related to his statutory release for the next few months, but they will be lifted as of Jan. 30, 2018. Until then, those conditions will restrict his movements. He is not to be in, near or around any places where children under age 18 are likely to congregate.
Places off limits include shopping centres, schools, parks, swimming pools and community centres.
After the conditions are lifted in the new year, Astle will be subject to two lifetime prohibition orders. They prohibit Astle from going to public parks and swimming pools where kids under 16 might go, and make daycare centres, school grounds, playgrounds and community centres off limits permanently.
Astle participated in some sex-offender treatment behind bars, but he’s still at risk to re-offend, police said.
Authorities warned any form of vigilante activity against the man will not be tolerated.
Astle has a lengthy criminal history. His first recorded offence for indecent assault dates back to 1969.
His most recent conviction was in 2014 for an offence in a Winnipeg Walmart. He was convicted of following a nine-year-old girl around the store and then exposing and fondling himself when he got her attention. Police said the girl ran away and wasn’t physically assaulted.
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