FLORIDA
Sun Herald
A former Port Charlotte church choir director, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1993 for sexually abusing a boy, was arrested Tuesday after being seen around children at an amusement park.
Richard James Trepinski, 68, 4437 Parmely St., Charlotte Harbor, was charged with violating conditions of his probation by being found in an area where children congregate when someone reported seeing him at Kid Star Park on Aug. 19.
Trepinski, the former choir director at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, pleaded no contest to molesting at least two children in the choir in April 1993. He received a 20-year prison sentence, but was released in April 2001.
Trepinski was charged with molesting one boy during a choir trip through the western United States in the summer of 1991. Following the trip, Trepinski continued molesting the boy until he threatened to tell a year later, according to court records.