TO: MEDIA
FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: JUNE 13, 2019
RE: PRESS RELEASE - DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES: CHENANGO COUNTY MAN ADMITS RAPE AND SEX ORAL SEX WITH CHILD
Mark Smith, 46, of 416 Round Pond Road in Greene, New York entered pleas of guilty to both Rape in the Third Degree and Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 in Ulster County Court. Smith admitted to having sexual intercourse and engaging in oral sexual conduct with a child less than seventeen years old between October 31, 2018 and December 31, 2018. Both crimes occurred at the child’s home in the Town of Rochester. The defendant was arrested on January 5, 2019, following an investigation by the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center.
Smith is to be sentenced on August 27, 2019. He faces up to eight years in prison followed by up to ten years of post-release supervision and will have to register under the New York State Sexual Offender Registration Act for a minimum of twenty years.
The case is being prosecuted by Special Victims Bureau Chief, Katherine R. Van Loan. The defendant is represented by the Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.