FROM: HOLLEY
CARNRIGHT
DATE: MARCH 2,
2016
RE: PRESS RELEASE
- DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES: MARBOROUGH MAN PLED GUILTY TO COURSE OF
SEXUAL CONDUCT AGAINST A CHILD
Alan Edwards, 62, of 245 Mount Zion Road, Marlborough,
pled guilty Wednesday, March 2, 2016, in Ulster County Court to the Class “B”
violent felony of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the First Degree.
Edwards admitted that between October 1, 2014 and
October 3, 2015, he engaged in two or more sexual acts, including at least one
act of oral sexual conduct, with a child less than eleven years old.
The defendant was arrested on October 7, 2015,
following an investigation by law enforcement officers assigned to the Ulster
County Family and Child Advocacy Center and the Marlborough Police Department
with assistance from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office after a
friend of the victims disclosed what he had done.
“As is all too common, this defendant befriended one
of the victim’s families and then utilized that friendship to gain access to
innocent and vulnerable children,” quoted District Attorney Holley Carnright.
The defendant faces a prison sentence between five
and twenty five years followed by a period of up to twenty years of post-release
supervision. The defendant will be
required to register for life under the New York Sex Offender Registration Act.
The case is being prosecuted by Special Victims
Bureau Chief Katherine R. Van Loan. The defendant
is represented by Majer Gold of the Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.
