The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services issued an alert this week to Orange County residents regarding the residency of 21-year-old Robert Kelly, who has moved from Orange County Jail to an apartment on Darraugh Lane in Sparrow Bush.
The Division of Criminal Justice Services has assigned Kelly as a Level 3 threat, which means he is a “high-risk repeat offender and possible threat to public safety.” He has also been designated as a sexually violent sex offender.
According to the Division of Criminal Justice Services, Kelly had deviate sexual intercourse and contact with girls aged 10, 5 and 6, and a 10-year-old boy in June 2012. He was convicted of first-degree rape by forcible compulsion in January 2014 and sentenced to a term of between two and six years in state prison. He is now under the jurisdiction of the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
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