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Rutland Herald
By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli
STAFF WRITER | May 30,2016
It’s been 22 years since Joseph Angelo Pasquariello was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. And in a petition to have his record expunged, the 71-year-old Rutland man said he has turned his life around.
“I am a member of Fellowship Bible Church in Castleton … I have also completed three years of sex offender treatment,” he said in his request to have his felony record removed. “I have contributed to the community in a positive manner.”
On Tuesday in Rutland criminal court, about 30 members of Pasquariello’s church came to his hearing to support his request.
“His filing has been supported by numerous letters attesting to the defendant’s positive character and how he has turned his life around,” Judge Thomas A. Zonay said. “Defendant is now 71 years old and has not sustained any further convictions.”
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