Sentenced After 2-Year Sex Assault On Child

RAMAPO, NY — A Rockland County man has been sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison as a predator for two years of sexual assaults on a child.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced Thursday that Domingo Mendez-Huales of Airmont, New York was sentenced on one count of Predatory Sexual Assault Against a Child, a class "A-2" Violent Felony and one count of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the First Degree, a class “B” Felony.

The sentences will be served concurrently.

Additionally, Mendez-Huales, 39, was sentenced to one year in state prison for one count of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, a class “A” Misdemeanor, on his Nov. 20, 2017 conviction after a jury trial to all three counts in the indictment.

“The defendant was a friend of the family of the victim and used that friendship to take advantage of an innocent child for his own sexual gratification," Zugibe said. "The sentence imposed by the Court is more than warranted and provides a measure of justice for the victim, who endured years of abuse at the hands of this predator.”

On numerous occasions between Sept. 1, 2015 and May 14, 2017, he repeatedly sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl in Airmont. The victim and Mendez-Huales share a family relationship.

Trial testimony included that of the victim, who is now 11, and the child’s mother.

Executive Assistant District Attorney Stephen Moore and Senior Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Devlin prosecuted the case.

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