A 21-year-old female reported to the state police at about 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 17 that she had been sexually assaulted by a male acquaintance at the home in the presence of a child.
Following an investigation, state police arrested Adam T. Cottell and charged him with criminal sexual act in the first degree and aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, both Class B felonies, as well as one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a Class A Misdemeanor.
Cottell was arraigned in the Town of Amenia Court and remanded to the Dutchess County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 bond.
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