Matthew Flandera

An upstate New York man will be returned to his home state to face a lengthy probation violation hit after previously being sentenced as a sexually violent predator in Butler County Court.

Matthew E. Flandera, 34, of North Syracuse, N.Y., appeared Tuesday before county Judge Timothy McCune, waiving his extradition to be sent back to New York. He has been held in the Butler County Prison on $80,000 cash bail after being charged with sexual assault counts in the county, as well as the detainer out of New York for a probation violation offense on a previous child pornography case, where he faces a nearly seven-year probation violation sentence.

Flandera was designated a sexually violent predator and sentenced to 10 to 23 months in Butler County Prison, as well as 48 months of probation on June 22. He also was ordered to undergo lifetime Megan's Law registration.

A sexually violent predator is a sex offender who has “a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes the person likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses,” according to the state Sexual Offenders Assessment Board's website.

Flandera pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of indecent assault on Nov. 15.

He was initially charged with two counts each of corruption of minors and child endangerment, both felonies, as well as five counts of indecent assault and one count of terroristic threats, both misdemeanors, after allegations that he molested two young boys over the Christmas holiday in 2015.