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Ex-School Counselor In Capital Region To Spend 15 Years In Prison For Child Sex Crimes

A Capital Region ex-school counselor will spend 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to the sexual exploitation of a child.

Kristy Koldis and Joshua White

Kristy Koldis and Joshua White

Photo Credit: New York State Police

Albany County resident Kristy Lynne Koldis, age 46, of Latham, was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 3, said US Attorney for the Northern District Of New York Carla Freedman.

In previously pleading guilty, Koldis admitted that she created sexually explicit content depicting the lewd and lascivious exhibition of the victim's genitals from the time the child was nine years old until they were 13, Freedman said.

Koldis then shared the files with Joshua White, 47, of Latham. Court documents show that White pleaded guilty in December 2023 and is scheduled to be sentenced in December. 

US District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino also imposed special assessments totaling over $55,000 and ordered Koldis to pay $5,000 in restitution. 

Koldis will have to register as a sex offender upon her release from prison.

Homeland Security Investigations and the New York State Police investigated this case, which Assistant US Attorney Michael D. Gadarian is prosecuting as part of Project Safe Childhood.

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