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.