Sex offender serves as grand marshal of Mississippi town's Christmas parade
12/16/2018 8:25 pm PST
via WREG:
SARDIS, Miss. (WREG) -- Some people in a north Mississippi town are complaining after the local chamber of commerce chose a sex offender as the grand marshal of the town Christmas parade.
Michael Saripkin presided over the Sardis Christmas parade Tuesday.
Saripkin was convicted in Tennessee of sexual battery in 1990 and statutory rape in 1997. In 2013, he was convicted in Mississippi of inappropriately touching a child.
Officials with the city of Sardis and the Chamber of Commerce couldn't be reached for comment. The Sardis Chamber of Commerce holds the parade.
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