Man Sentenced For Having Sex With Disabled Child In His Care

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A White Plains man was sentenced to prison for 32 years for having sex with a disabled child while he was her caregiver. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. announced Tuesday that Jard Hobbs, 45, of White Plains, was sentenced to the maximum possible for the following charges:

• First-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, a felony — 25 years
• Second-degree rape, a felony — seven years
• Endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor — one year

Scarpino said the first two sentences will be served consecutively. The one year on the child endangerment charge will be served as part of the longer sentence.

Hobbs must appear for post-release supervision and will have to register as a sex offender before he is released from prison.

He was convicted by a jury March 16.

Prosecutors said the sexual abuse began when the child was 11 and ended when she was 13 at which time she told her family. Hobbs was in his 40s at the time.

He was entrusted by the child’s single working mother to be her caregiver.

The family subsequently reported the abuse to the Rye police

Investigators found DNA evidence including semen in the child’s shorts which corroborated the charges.

Rye police arrested Hobbs at his White Plains residence July 7, 2017.

In court Tuesday, the child’s mother told the judge of her child’s cerebral palsy, seizures, pain, loss of sight and daily struggles.

She said, “For someone, your honor, to know this, to know all of this, and see firsthand the things she goes through and how she suffers everyday of her life to purposely hurt her … to use her for his own sexual pleasure over and over.”

Scarpino said the child asked to have lyrics from “Praying” by Kesha read as her statement to the court.

In his sentencing statement, Assistant District Attorney Paul Stein said that Hobbs remained remorseless even in the face of the child’s testimony, which was supported by all of the other evidence in the case.

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