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Sex offender to be released from Vermont prison

Alan Ziesemer
Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations
Alan Ziesemer

The Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations is alerting residents of Vermont’s most populated area that a high-risk sex offender will be released from prison on Wednesday.

On Wednesday 65-year-old Alan Ziesemer will be released from Vermont’s Northwest State Correctional Facility. He was convicted in 2001 of sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and physically assaulting her when she resisted. In 1980 he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in New Jersey.

The Vermont Department of Corrections places Ziesemer’s risk of sexual recidivism as High Risk and if he does re-offend his victims would likely be minor boys and girls he does not know.

He plans to live in Winooski and will be supervised by Burlington, Vermont Probation and Parole.