FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: DECEMBER 11, 2017
RE: PRESS RELEASE
Gilberto Ballester-Perez, 36, formerly of 299 Mettacahonts Road Accord was sentenced in Ulster County Court on Friday, December 8, 2017 to 7 years in prison with 10 years post-release supervision on his arrest for Course of Sexual Conduct against a Child in the second degree.
The defendant was arrested on December 13, 2016 following an investigation by the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center.
The case was prosecuted by Katherine R. Van Loan, Bureau Chief of the Special Victim’s Bureau of The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. The defendant was represented by Mariann Connolly of the Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.