FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: DECEMBER 14, 2018
RE: PRESS RELEASE - DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES: KINGSTON MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED ORAL SEX WITH TEEN AND IS SENTENCED TO STATE PRISON
James Beermunder, 20, formerly of VanDuesen Street in Kingston, entered a plea of guilty Thursday, December 13, 2018, to Attempted Criminal Sexual Act in the Second Degree in Ulster County Court. The defendant admitted that Between February 1, 2017 and April 30, 2017, when he was 18 years old, he attempted to engage in oral sexual conduct with a thirteen year old child.
The defendant was sentenced at the time of his plea to four years in state prison to be followed by ten years of post-release supervision. He will be required to register under the New York State Sexual Offender Registration Act for a minimum of twenty years. Additionally an Order of Protection requiring the defendant to stay away and have no contact with the victim until December 13, 2030 was issued and served upon the defendant. An application to grant the defendant Youthful Offender Status, which is discretionary on a felony offense, was denied.
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.