FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: MARCH 2, 2016
RE: PRESS RELEASE - DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES: MARBOROUGH MAN PLED GUILTY TO COURSE OF SEXUAL CONDUCT AGAINST A CHILD
Alan Edwards, 62, of 245 Mount Zion Road, Marlborough, pled guilty Wednesday, March 2, 2016, in Ulster County Court to the Class “B” violent felony of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the First Degree.
Edwards admitted that between October 1, 2014 and October 3, 2015, he engaged in two or more sexual acts, including at least one act of oral sexual conduct, with a child less than eleven years old.
The defendant was arrested on October 7, 2015, following an investigation by law enforcement officers assigned to the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center and the Marlborough Police Department with assistance from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office after a friend of the victims disclosed what he had done.
“As is all too common, this defendant befriended one of the victim’s families and then utilized that friendship to gain access to innocent and vulnerable children,” quoted District Attorney Holley Carnright.
The defendant faces a prison sentence between five and twenty five years followed by a period of up to twenty years of post-release supervision. The defendant will be required to register for life under the New York Sex Offender Registration Act.
The case is being prosecuted by Special Victims Bureau Chief Katherine R. Van Loan. The defendant is represented by Majer Gold of the Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.