KINGSTON – A former counselor
at the Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Traumatic Brain Injury
in Lake Katrine was sentenced Friday in Ulster County Court to 46 years
in state prison.
Jacky Stanley, 51, of Kingston was convicted of sexually abusing six residents
at the center between July 2014 and February 2015.
County Court Judge Donald Williams also sentenced him to 20 years of post-release
supervision. Stanley has been in the Ulster County Jail since his arrest
in August 2016.
His victims were residents who were admitted to Northeast Center for rehabilitation
after sustaining traumatic brain injuries.
Stanley’s role as a unit counselor was to aid new residents in acclimating
to the center and its programs. Instead he used his position and the trust
placed in him by his residents to gain access to the victims to sexually
abuse them within days, even hours of their arrival.
The evidence at trial revealed he threatened one of the victims he abused
and the victim’s family on several occasions to keep the victim
silent.
It was also shown that one of his other handicapped victims woke up from
his sleep to find Stanley performing oral sex on him.
It was only after one of the victims came forward that Stanley’s
pattern of abuse emerged.
He was convicted after a one-week trial of 24-counts related to his sexual
abuse of sex victims. The convictions included one count of criminal sexual
act and seven counts of sexual abuse, all as felonies.
The Ulster Town Police Department investigated the case, which was prosecuted
by the state attorney general’s office.
