Posted on 07/09/2008 9:02:51 PM PDT by neverdem
NEW CITY, N.Y. ― A former Rockland County prosecutor was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison and 10 years probation for having sex with teenage boys. Yet perhaps the worst of all for Beth Modica is the public shame heaped on her by her own daughter.
Modica arrived in court knowing she'd be facing a judge and prison bars for a significant period of time, but the 44-year-old mother of four probably didn't know she'd face a painful public repudiation by her 16-year-old daughter Danielle.
"She certainly understands that the daughter was angry right from the beginning, but to come out and recommend that your mom go to state prison, that's a pretty devastating happening," said Gerard Damiani Modica's attorney.
Last summer at her home in Sloatsburg, Modica gave her children and their friends beer and marijuana and engaged in sex with two young men, including her daughter's boyfriend.
Modica cried as her daughter described pounding on a bathroom door while her mother seduced and performed oral sex on the boyfriend on the other side.
"We were competing for the same 15-year-old boy. What kind of person does this to her child? She should be punished for the awful things she has done," Danielle said during the courtroom proceeding. "I was betrayed by both of them."
At one point the judge said, "Your daughter's boyfriend? That's disgusting."
Prosecutor Dominick Crispino also read a letter from Modica's son Joseph, who told his mother, "I am truly ashamed and disgusted with you."
Modica's 12-year-old son, Nicholas, also wrote to request prison time for his mother, saying, "I need to know when she gets out of jail it will be safe for me to be around her."
Listening to it all was Leslie Brown, whose 16-year-old son Modica had pleaded guilty to raping.
"I'm devastated for their family as well as my own. We're all victims," she said, calling Modica a "sly and manipulative sexual predator."
Modica tearfully apologized, saying she "I am truly sorry and will be eternally remorseful."
Her lawyer said unexplained emotional problems caused her to commit the crimes. She will serve time in a prison that specializes in treating sex offenders.
Modica's estranged husband is the Spring Valley police chief. The judge, who called Modica a "disgusting monster," said their home should have been the ultimate safe place for teens, but instead it became a place of betrayal.
Besides two years in state prison for Modica's guilty plea to statutory rape and criminal sex act, the judge imposed 10 years probation, sex offender registration and 10-year orders of protection for the two boys she had sex with.
SNORT!
Don’ quit your day job...if you’ve got one.
Brown is the mother of the boy (Modica’s daughter’s boyfriend) to whom Modica was giving a blow job.
These are crimes against humanity...
This should at the very least be a strong consideration in how long one's sentence should be.
C’mon guys...smoke some weed and drink some booze and she could very possibly be not guilty.
A bale of weed, a keg of beer and 15 year old gonads still wouldn't make me hit that.
Puke, more likely.
So the kids all got drunk and smoked pot. If they’d had sex among themselves, nobody would bat an eye. But this woman is a “monster” just because she’s 44. Who do these kids think they are, to be so judgmental?
Shades of Omar Khayyam.
Traded some meth for it?
After looking at that picture of her, I wouldn't be surprised if she was a tweaker in training.
WAY guilty!
ba-dump-bump!
LOL!!!
Cheers!
“So the kids all got drunk and smoked pot. If theyd had sex among themselves, nobody would bat an eye. But this woman is a monster just because shes 44. Who do these kids think they are, to be so judgmental?”
Yeah, older women have needs too... (joking). The problem we have is a lack of boundaries in today’s society. With the loss of morality and cultural taboos has come great moral confusion. Chaos is the baby thrown out with the bathwater returning the offspring of a generation that refused to grow up. It will take more than a condom on a cucumber to fix this mess.
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