New York Woman Gets 10 Years for Raping Boy - Updated

(Poughkeepsie, New York) In October, 43-year-old Kathleen Callanan pleaded guilty to first-degree rape and yesterday in Dutchess County Court she was sentenced.

With hands shackled and head bowed, Callanan was forced to listen as a prosecutor read a poem composed by the boy she victimized.

”Rage and fury, pain to bury, lustful sinner that you are, insides filled with terror,“ Senior Assistant District Attorney Andrea Long said, reading the poem.

County Court Judge Thomas J. Dolan then sentenced Callanan, a Hyde Park resident, to 10 years in state prison.

Minutes later, Dolan imposed a 20-year prison term on another defendant in the case, 32-year-old David Hotaling of the City of Poughkeepsie, for repeatedly sexually abusing the same boy.

”These acts are despicable and deserve the most stringent, harsh punishment,“ Dolan said.

”It doesn't get much worse than this,“ he said. ”If the court is not here to protect a 9-year-old child, we have no business being here at all.“

Fifty-five-year-old Robert Rogler was previously sentenced to 20 years to life in prison and John Blenis, 35, remains to be sentenced.

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New York Woman Guilty of Raping Boy
[Previous 10/26/09 post]
(Poughkeepsie, New York) In June 2009, a Hyde Park woman, Kathleen Callanan, was arrested on six counts of felony rape stemming from the alleged sexual abuse of a boy under 13 years of age.

Today in Dutchess County Court, Callanan pleaded guilty before Judge Thomas J. Dolan to first-degree rape in accordance with a plea agreement.

Callanan told the judge she had sex with the boy, who was under the age of 13, on a day between Jan. 17 and March 27, 2008. She said another defendant charged in the indictment, Robert Rogler, had transported her and the child to Rogler’s home on the day of the crime.

Rogler, 55, of Hyde park, and 35-year-old John Blenis, a former Poughkeepsie resident who was living in Canton, Ohio when he was arrested, still face multiple felony charges in connection with the alleged rapes. A fourth defendant, David Hotaling, 32, of the City of Poughkeepsie, admitted his role in the crimes Oct. 6 and faces a 20-year prison sentence.

The three men still face prosecution in the case. Callanan's sentencing arrangements have not been disclosed.