Stanley
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. His victims were residents who were admitted to Northeast Center for rehabilitation after sustaining traumatic brain injuries.
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.
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.
