TAVARES, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A judge in Lake County, Fla., sentenced a convicted sex offender to five years in prison for violating his probation by posting videos on YouTube.
While Edward Muscare, 77, insisted Wednesday he did nothing wrong by posting homemade videos on the video-sharing Web site, Lake County Circuit Judge Mark Hill disagreed, The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel said.
"You keep saying you know how to obey the law," said Hill, referring to Muscare's history of probation violations. "I don't believe you."
Standard probation regulations bar offenders from using computers or the Internet.
After being convicted on sexual battery charges over a 1987 attack on a 14-year-old boy in Orlando, Fla., Muscare was convicted in 1988 of failing to adhere to sex-offender registration requirements.
Muscare's probation was extended after he decided to relocate to South Carolina in 2006.
The Sentinel said among the online videos created by Muscare was a video showing Muscare lip-syncing the song "Oh, Pretty Woman" and a video in which Muscare explains how to properly pronounce the word "nuclear."
