Alabama Man Gets Life for Exposing Self to Boy

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Associated Press
Published: September 5, 2008

  MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A federal judge in Mobile has sentenced a
man to life imprisonment after he exposed himself to a boy in a
Mississippi park. The judge cited the defendant’s two previous
convictions for sex crimes against children.

    While indecent exposure sometimes is prosecuted as a misdemeanor
crime, U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade ruled Wednesday that the
life term was automatic for 46-year-old Michael Ryan South because
of his record.

    Jurors convicted South in May on a felony charge of attempting
to lure a 9-year-old boy for sex. The judge rejected defense
arguments that a life sentence without the chance for parole was
cruel and unusual punishment.

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