Andretta
CATSKILL – A Freehold man has been arrested and charged with rape
in connection with an incident involving an underage girl that occurred
in the Village of Athens in November 2015.
State Police charged Joseph Andretta, 19, with rape in the first degree
and criminal sexual act, both as felonies and endangering the welfare
of a child as a misdemeanor.
Andretta, who was 18 at the time, is alleged to have had sexual relations
with a 12-year-old girl last November.
He was remanded to the Greene County Jail without bail.
State Police were assisted in the case by village police in Athens and
Catskill and the Greene County Probation Department and District Attorney’s
Office.
