The Tale of An Unrepentant Homosexual Pedophile.

From the Lancaster, PA Ignorancer-Urinal:

Former Middletown Borough police officer Richard Aston couldn't resist a parting shot at a Lancaster County Court judge Tuesday after being sentenced for repeatedly violating his probation.

Judge James P. Cullen had sentenced Aston, 74, of 145 Lancaster Estates, Rapho Township, to 1 to 3 years in jail for failing to register as a sex offender and for being unwilling to cooperate with sex-offender counselors. Aston was convicted in 2004 of molesting a then-10-year-old boy.

Tuesday, as sheriff's deputies were handcuffing him, Aston turned to the judge.

"You just made Sheaffer very happy," he said, referring to his probation officer, Merrill Sheaffer.

"You mean Mr. Sheaffer," Cullen said.

"Never gonna happen," Aston said as he was led from the courtroom.

Aston faced a maximum of 7 years in prison for failing to comply with Megan's Law, which requires sex offenders to add their names to a national registry.

During the sentencing hearing, Aston's attorney, Douglas Conrad, said his client had trouble passing the court-ordered polygraph test, which is administered to determine if a parolee is lying about having contact with children.

"Your client has problems with more than that," Cullen said. "He is abusive with staff and his counselors. He has simply done whatever he felt like doing whenever he felt like doing it."

Conrad said he was at a loss to find a program that would suit Aston.

"He was going to his appointments," Conrad said. "He attended the sex-offender counseling. I don't know why he stopped going."

Cullen answered that question.

"He does the absolute minimum, or he does nothing at all," the judge said. "He is the only defendant I know who was back in court the same day he was paroled (for harassing probation and parole personnel). I had the (sex-offender program) director in my chambers literally within minutes of his release."

Aston was sentenced in December 2004 to 4 months' house arrest and 5 years' probation after a jury found him guilty of two counts of indecent assault, two counts of corruption of minors and one count of indecent exposure.

Cullen at that time said he had a "strong temptation" to incarcerate Aston simply because of the defendant's "arrogance."

When Cullen told Aston he was required to register as a sex offender with Pennsylvania state police for 10 years, Aston scoffed.

"I won't last that long," he said.

In February 2005, Aston was arrested for failing to register. At a parole violation hearing, personnel with Lancaster County's probation and parole department testified Aston was belligerent and noncompliant "from day one" and used profanity profusely during his contact with his probation officers.

Molly Simmons, an intake specialist with Treatment Triad, a sex-offender counseling program, said when Aston appeared for his sex-offender evaluation he handed her a card that stated he would only answer yes or no to questions and would not comment further.

Aston eventually cooperated but continued to give counselors and probation personnel a hard time, she said.

Aston, the divorced father of four grown children, was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy after eight years of service. He retired from the Middletown Borough Police Department after 24 years and became a correctional officer at Lancaster County Prison, a job he no longer holds.