School scholar cops plea deal for group service in rape case

A Brooklyn teen accused of rape at a Hudson Valley faculty copped a plea take care of prosecutors for group service, authorities say.

Anthony Pennachio, 19, who’s a scholar at Mount St. Mary School, was arrested in March on first-degree rape prices on the campus, based on police.

However as a part of the settlement with the Orange County District Lawyer’s Workplace, the teenager pleaded responsible to downgraded prices of third-degree sexual abuse on Might 18, information present.

Prosecutors stated in his plea allocution, Pennachio admitted that he subjected the sufferer to sexual contact with out her consent.

He was sentenced to 80 hours of group service and ordered to keep away from the sufferer, the DA’s Workplace stated.

The plea deal was hammered out after session with the sufferer, prosecutors stated.

“My consumer and his household are deeply saddened that the Newburgh Police Division detectives, who made this Rape First Diploma arrest, rushed to judgement with out interviewing key witnesses on this alleged incident,” the teenager’s lawyer, James DiPietro, stated in a press release.