LAKE COUNTY, Fla.,None — A convicted sex offender known for posting strange videos online is heading back to prison. Edward Muscare, 77, posted bizarre videos to the website YouTube.
Within the last hour, a judge revoked Muscare's probation, which means prison time for the convicted sex offender.
The sentence was handed down Wednesday. Muscare told a judge he was an entertainer, that's why he posted videos on YouTube, which is in violation of his probation.
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But there'll be no new videos for Muscare who was arrested three months ago. He's headed to the state penitentiary for five years with credit for time served.
The same YouTube videos that made 77-year-old Edward Muscare an internet sensation have cost him his freedom.
“I'm frankly bewildered that I'm here, I don't think I've done anything wrong,” Muscare said.
Prosecutors argued that the convicted sex offender violated his probation by posting videos online. In the mid-80s, Muscare was convicted of molesting a teenaged boy in Orange County.
By 2006, Muscare was living in Lake County. When he didn't notify authorities there of a change of address, he received five years probation. One of the conditions of that probation required Muscare not to have a computer without permission.
When a probation officer spotted one in Muscare's new home in South Carolina, she told him it wasn't supposed to be there. He told her he would submit his computer for inspection without notice.
Muscare thought the matter was resolved until he said he became a victim of his own popularity.
Edward Muscare's Pretty Woman lip-sync got more than 700,000 views on YouTube.
But unfortunately for Muscare, Florida investigators were watching his posts too. They travelled to South Carolina to arrest Muscare at his new home.
“I didn't do anything wrong, my video wasn't immoral, but I didn't do anything wrong,” he said.
At one point, Muscare was informed he was in violation of probation and he gave a friend his password to posts new videos of Muscare online. That didn't go over well with the judge either.
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