BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 100-year-old man who’s New York state’s oldest registered sex offender could be released from a halfway house soon, much to the dismay of a prosecutor who says he remains a threat to children.

Theodore Sypnier says he’ll be living alone in a Buffalo apartment by the end of the month. The retired telephone company worker has been in prison for most of the last nine years after pleading guilty to attempted sodomy in the town of Tonawanda.

He was paroled last month. Authorities say he’ll be closely monitored when he’s released from a halfway house.

He has at least two convictions for molesting children and has been suspected in other cases over the last six decades.

Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III calls Sypnier an unrepentant child molester and “the personification of evil.”