FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: NOVEMBER 28, 2018
RE: PRESS RELEASE - DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES: SPRING GLEN MAN SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED STATUTORY RAPE
Jonathan Santiago, 24, was sentenced on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, to the maximum sentence allowed, four years in state prison to be followed by ten years of post-release supervision on his plea to Attempted Rape in the Second Degree. The defendant entered his plea on July 27, 2018 in Ulster County Court, admitting that between February 1, 2017 and March 1, 2017, he attempted to engage in sexual intercourse with a fourteen year old child. Santiago will have to register under the New York State Sexual Offender Registration Act for a minimum of twenty years. An Order of Protection was issued to remain in effect until November 21, 2036.
The defendant was arrested on October 3, 2017, following an investigation by the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center. He was indicted by an Ulster County Grand Jury on January 11, 2018 for three counts of the crime of Rape in the Second Degree. All three events were alleged to have occurred between February 1, 2017 and March 31, 2017 in the Town of Rosendale, with the same child.
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.