KINGSTON – A Port Ewen man was sentenced Wednesday to four years in state prison for the crime of course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree, classified as a violent felony.

Daniel Ryan, 33, pled guilty on April 29, 2008.  He was arrested on November 8, 2007, following an investigation conducted by members of the Ulster County Family Violence Unit.   The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Lauren Swan who said Ryan was intimately involved with a 12-year-old girl for a number of years, beginning in 2002.  Ryan was 26 at the time. 

“The severity of this defendant’s sentence reflects the nature of the aggravating factors surrounding this case – the age of the victim, the length of time this crime was committed, and that a man could repeatedly violate a child’s trust, but also takes into account the fact that the defendant’s guilty plea spared this young woman from being further victimized by having to testify against her abuser at trial,” said District Attorney Holley Carnright.

In addition, as part of his sentence Ryan will be required to register as a sexual offender upon his release from state prison and will be supervised as a sex offender for at least 20 years.