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Posted by: brkfldpo

November 19. 2006 12:00AM

Sex offender, 90, says the system is unfair

By Elaine Thompson TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
ethompson@telegram.com

MARLBORO— Ninety-year-old Wesley Fay Wetherell Sr., a Level 3 sex offender who lives in a prison-cell-sized room at the Lincoln Street Inn, is closely watching a local law that could run him and other convicted child predators out of Marlboro.

The partially blind grandfather, who grew up in Hudson, said he doesn’t know the source of his perversion toward little girls. But the crimes for which he has been convicted, he said, were not vicious enough to warrant him having to uproot and move to another community.

“I think they’re pushing the sex offenders too hard,” Mr. Wetherell said in a recent telephone interview. “They’re making all of them look like the bad people who kill young girls or something. I think we’re all being judged the same way.”

The Vermont native was convicted of indecent assault and battery in 1985, after, according to him, he inappropriately touched three 10-year-old Marlboro girls and then had one of them touch his privates. In 1999, in Florida, he was convicted of a similar charge involving two other 10-year-old girls. But although he was advised by his lawyer not to contest the Florida charge, Mr. Wetherell said he did not commit the acts. He served six months on the Massachusetts conviction and 18 months in Florida. He was released from probation nine months ago and moved back to Marlboro in July.

Mr. Wetherell said he and his family moved to Hudson when he was 4. When he was 10, his father deserted the family and his mother worked several jobs to support him and his four siblings, though the children were left pretty much to raise themselves, he said. As an adult, he worked as a trucker and married his wife in 1938. The couple have two sons — one lives in Mendon — and three grandchildren.

After his arrest in 1985, Mr. Wetherell said, he confessed to his wife that this was not the first time he had molested a young girl. Around 1961, he said he told her, he inappropriately touched her 10-year-old sister.

“She was sitting in my lap. I rubbed her legs. I went between her legs. She didn’t tell anybody,” said Mr. Wetherell. He said his wife responded by packing his things and putting him out.

While on probation, Mr. Wetherell said he was allowed to live and work in New Hampshire near a niece who had a daughter and son around the age of 10.

“For some reason or other I said something wrong to the little girl one day. I don’t want to repeat it. I knew I was wrong,” Mr. Wetherell said. “I went to the mother and told her. The next morning the father said I had to leave.”

From there, he moved to Florida, where he worked as a maintenance man at a campground. He said he had been taking care of a couple’s trailer for four years when police accused him of touching the privates of the couple’s 10-year-old granddaughter and her friend. Shock from the arrest at the age of 83, he said, caused him to have a heart attack and subsequently open heart surgery.

When he returned to Marlboro in July, Mr. Wetherell said, he had to settle in a cramped room in the Lincoln Street Inn, a roominghouse in downtown Marlboro, although he receives about $2,000 a month from Social Security and a teamster’s pension. He pays $600 a month for the 280-square-foot room, which has a sink, stove, refrigerator, bathroom and a twin-size bed. To get there, he has to climb 40 stairs to the third floor. He walks at least two miles each day to escape the loneliness, he said. When he can get a ride, he visits his 87-year-old wife in an Uxbridge nursing home. He said she remembers him, although she has Alzheimer’s, but that she doesn’t remember the arrests.

Because of his criminal record, he said, he was refused an apartment at the senior housing complex on Main Street where his brother-in-law lives. A local lawyer is helping him try to get the decision reversed, he said.

“I really think they’re treating us unfair. A little bit of this trouble is on the parents of the children for not teaching them to watch out for strangers. Parents today aren’t watching out over their children as much as they used to,” he said. “Plus, the way some of them dress, if a guy has got anything in his head at all he’ll get excited and they’ll get in trouble for it.”

Mr. Wetherell said he has been helped by the extensive counseling he received in Florida. Counselors told him that his problems are rooted in something that happened to him as a child. He said he doesn’t remember being molested, although his mother had several men in and out of their home when he was a child. Once, when he was around 8, he said, two teenage brothers forced him and a little girl to have sex.

“The counseling helped me. I know it did,” Mr. Wetherell said. “I’ve lived in shame since 1984. I think about what I did. I wouldn’t want to go through it again. I don’t know why I did it. But, it’s like going to the beach. People, they just have on just a little bit and I think that bothers people.”

I hope one day all Massachusetts cities and towns will follow in Marlboro's shoes.

Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

Yeah, sounds like hes just full of remorse!

Posted by: kwflatbed

A tiger cannot change his stripes, F' them they made thier bed
let them lay in it. Move them all to an isolated island.

Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

SINK the fkn island after theyre on it!

Posted by: Wolfman

He lives in shame, he can die in shame. Scumbag.

Posted by: MtBiker

I can't believe he has the guts to blame the parents. What an ass.

Posted by: PBiddy35

Call me crazy but did it even mention why he'll be getting the boot? I like how this guy gets 90years of life and good people can get less than 50.

Posted by: rocksy1826

sex offenders make me sick. he acts like because he didn't kill them he didn't do much harm. what about the trauma? living with what was done to them?

i am really disgusted by this guy

Posted by: Crvtte65

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Originally Posted by PBiddy35

Call me crazy but did it even mention why he'll be getting the boot? I like how this guy gets 90years of life and good people can get less than 50.

Marlboro has proposed an ordinance which would restrict where sex offenders can legally live. The result, if passed, would limit them to live in only a few places which are a specified distance from schools and parks etc.

Posted by: rocksy1826

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crvtte65

golf claps for Marlboro!

Posted by: JoninNH

I wonder when DigJiz will weigh in... maybe they should pass an ordinance restricting wackers from living with in 5 miles of a police station.

Back on topic... I think they should pass an ordinance forbidding them (Level 3 freaks, not wackers) from entering the town entirely, although I am sure that wouldn't pass constitutional m

Posted by: rocksy1826

that ordinance would thrill me

whackers should be banned from ems also. there's a guy with a full set of lights and sirens on his truck. i don't know how he got it, or how he paid for it.

you know what he does?

same thing as me. he's trying to get on fire.

i'm sorry, there is no reason to respond lights/sirens from your home to the ambulance service you work for. NONE.

Posted by: TopCop24

he's still a diddler

Posted by: SOT

This guy is walking 2 miles a day in search of kids...I have NO doubt about it.

The fact that he blames the parents of the kids shows he's still looking to commit more crimes. I wish someone could set up a sting...and get this creep off the streets.

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