Saturday, January 8, 2011

MAN GETS JAIL TIME FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING GASPORT BOY

An Albion man who was convicted in November of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy was sentenced to four years in state prison and 10 years probation earlier this week in Niagara County Court.

Joshua P. Reid, 42, was charged last February with third-degree sexual abuse, third-degree criminal sexual act and endangering the welfare of a child. The crimes reportedly happened at his residence while living on Royalton Center Road in Gasport, after which he said the teen was “asking for it.”

Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth R. Donatello said Reid confessed to deputies of the crimes and then again during a tape-recorded phone call with the victim.