Ex Radnor Pol's Sentence To Be Reconsidered After Probation Stirs Ire

RADNOR, PA – After a probation and home-monitoring sentence was imposed on former Radnor Township Commissioner William Spingler and raised ire among prosecutors and the public, a Delaware County judge has set a date to reconsider his sentencing.

Court records show Judge John Capuzzi Sr. set a Nov. 9 date to reconsider Spingler's two-year-probation, 60-month-home-monitoring sentence that was handed down Oct. 12.

Just days after the sentence was imposed, county prosecutors filed a motion to reconsider the sentence for two reasons.

The Delaware County District Attorney's office said those reasons are that Spingler's supervision should be under the sex offender unit, rather than the general unit, and that the ruling should include no contact with the victim, who is Spingler's mother in law.

Prosecutors in the case were hoping for a three- to 23-month prison sentence, with a seven-year probation period to follow.

Spingler, 75, of Paoli, was found guilty of indecent assault in June this year and then sentenced to two years of probation and 60 months of home monitoring on Thursday, Oct. 12.

Many people online called for a harsher penalty for Spingler, who admitted to touching his 103-year-old mother in law's breast on two occasions in December 2016.

He was convicted on two of three counts of indecent assault on a person with a mental disability on Thursday, June 15 after admitting to touching the best of the woman, who is the mother of his late wife, on two occasions in December 2016 at the Wayne Nursing Home

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