Sex offender ‘exiled’ from U.S. is held
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An American sex offender sentenced by a U.S. judge to three years’ “exile” in Canada was arrested by Canadian border guards and faces deportation, the government said.
Federal ministers and legislators had expressed deep unhappiness after a New York state judge allowed former teacher Malcolm Watson, convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl, to live in Canada on probation rather than serve time in a U.S. jail.
Watson, a U.S. citizen, lives in Ontario near the U.S. border with his wife and children. He had commuted to work at a girls’ school in nearby Buffalo, N.Y.
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