Mom Accused of Intimacy with Son's Friends - Updated

(Ramapo, New York) A 44-year-old mother-of-four and wife of the Spring Valley Police Chief, Beth Modica, has been accused of hosting wild parties and engaging in intimate relations with high school boys as young as 16 at her home in Sloatsburg.

Modica has been under investigation since rumors started to circulate at Suffern High School last year. An indictment delineating specific charges will be unsealed on Tuesday.

A high-ranking official said that on at least one occasion Modica provided alcohol and marijuana for some of her 16-year-old son's teammates on the Suffern Mounties ice hockey team.

She is also accused of having intimate relations with some players as young as 16, the official said.

"This is a very delicate thing . . . this is a very sad story for her family and friends," he said. "It's a very shocking, disturbing and sad incident."

It was not clear whether Modica's son or her husband, Paul, the police chief in Spring Valley, were home at the time of the parties.

Beth Modica is a former PTA President and prosecuting attorney.


[Update 04/12/08]

From Lohud.com:

A former prosecutor admitted in court yesterday that she had sex with two teenage boys in her Sloatsburg home during the summer.

Beth Modica, 44, a PTA mother of four children, faces a maximum sentence of two years in state prison at her June sentencing on yesterday's guilty pleas to felony charges of third-degree rape and third-degree criminal sexual act. She faced 1 1/2 to four years on each felony count.

The judge ordered Modica held in Rockland County jail until her June 13 sentencing. Jail officials transferred Modica to an upstate facility for her protection.

Based on her guilty plea, Modica also faces 10 years post-release supervision, registering as a sex offender and paying about $1,300 in DNA testing and court fees. She also will be disbarred.

Modica's lawyer, Gerard Damiani of New City, still hopes to persuade acting state Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bartlett to sentence Modica to county jail time or probation. A presentencing hearing has been scheduled for June 4.

Standing with Damiani yesterday in the courtroom, Modica admitted that in July she had intercourse with a 15-year-old boy in her bed and gave oral sex to a 16-year-old boy in the bathroom of her house.

She softly answered "yes" to at times graphic questions about her sexual acts from Supervising Assistant District Attorney Dominic Crispino.

Modica admitted she knew that both Suffern High School boys - who were friends with her eldest son - were underage when she had sex with them. She had been accused of providing oral sex to the 15-year-old on several other occasions.

Heh.