Offender gets 2 years on registration failure
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Published: September 30, 2009
BURLINGTON — A federal judge sentenced a Springfield man to 24 months in prison Monday for failing to register as a sex offender.
Judge William K. Sessions III sentenced Robert Glen Harrison in U.S. District Court in Burlington for failing to update his registration as required under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Sessions also sentenced Harrison to five years of supervision upon his release from prison.
According to court records, Harrison was convicted in 1998 of sexually assaulting a child younger then 16 years old and was sentenced to one to five years in prison and received probation. In 1999, he violated his probation was incarcerated until 2003.
Upon his release, Harrison was told he had to register with the Vermont Sex Offender Registry, keep his registration current and, if he moved to a new to state, to notify that state within three days of the move.
In May 2008, law enforcement officers learned Harrison had moved to Florida, but did not register as a sex offender until six months after the move. Harrison was later arrested by U.S. marshals.
Harrison is the first person to be convicted in Vermont under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, which was enacted in 2006.
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