FROM: HOLLEY
CARNRIGHT
DATE: AUGUST 6,
2018
RE: PRESS RELEASE
- DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES: LIBERTY MAN SENTENCED FOR ENGAGING IN ORAL SEX WITH A CHILD
Leoneudi
Agueda, 24, of 44 Dwyer Avenue in the Village of Liberty, Sullivan County, was
sentenced Friday, July 27, 2018, to the Class “D” violent felony of Criminal
Sexual Act in the Second Degree in Ulster County Court. The defendant received the maximum sentence
permitted by law, seven years in state prison to be followed by ten years
post-release supervision. He will be
required to register under the New York State Sexual Offender Registration Act
for a minimum of twenty years. An Order
of Protection was issued in favor of the victim to remain in effect until
2033.
The
defendant was arrested on June 15, 2017, following an investigation by the New
York State Police Ellenville Barracks. He
was indicted by an Ulster County Grand Jury on February 8, 2018 for the crime
of Criminal Sexual Act in the Second Degree.
The felonious sexual act was with a twelve year old child and occurred
at a parking area off State Route 52 in the Town of Wawarsing. The defendant also faces misdemeanor charges
in Sullivan County.
The
defendant was further charged by the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office
on February 6, 2018 with two counts of Bribing a Witness for offering monetary
compensation to two witnesses in exchange for their altered testimony in this
case. The defendant had been released on
property bond when the additional crimes took place.
There
were two underaged witnesses, purportedly friends of the victim, who clearly
lied to us and the Grand Jury. We
learned that the defendant had bribed them to alter their testimony.
The
case was prosecuted by Special Victims Bureau Chief, Katherine R. Van
Loan. The defendant was represented by the
Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.
