FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: APRIL 24, 2017
RE: PRESS RELEASE - DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCE: SAUGERTIES MAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS FOR COURSE OF SEXUAL CONDUCT AGAINST A CHILD
Jeffrey C. Brown, 54, of 227 Partition Street in Saugerties, was sentenced Monday, April 24, 2017, in Ulster County Court to 15 years in state prison to be followed by 20 years of post-release supervision on his conviction to course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree. In addition, he will be required to register under the New York State Sexual Offender Registration Act for the remainder of his life. An Order of Protection in favor of the victim will remain in effect until 2060.
Brown pled guilty on February 23, 2017. During his plea allocution, he admitted that between September 1, 2014 and December 29, 2014, he engaged in at least two acts of sexual conduct which included at least one act of sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct or anal sexual conduct with a child who was less then thirteen years old. An investigation conducted by the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center led to Brown’s arrest on August 25, 2016.
At sentencing, the defendant apologized for his behavior and asked forgiveness stating that he was “good to them for awhile” and he should have been the person he started out. He claimed he will love the family forever. However, County Court Judge Donald A. Williams had harsh words for the defendant telling Brown that to ask forgiveness was “beyond any sense of human decency” and that he “could not imagine anything more loathsome” than what the defendant has done preying on a vulnerable child to “satisfy his perverse desires”.
District Attorney Holley Carnright, stated “The courage of this young person to overcome her own personal suffering and expose an adult figure who should have provided shelter to her from such atrocities, cannot be underestimated. Most of these abhorrent crimes against children simply cannot commence without one victim who has the courage to make a disclosure.”
The case was prosecuted by Special Victim’s Bureau Chief Katherine R. VanLoan of the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. The defendant was represented by the Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.