By The newspaper
02 May 2024, 00:28 AM EDT
Derrick Clancy, a homeless man who was imprisoned for 11 years for abusing a young woman, has now pleaded guilty to committing the same crime against two older women by invading their homes on Long Island (NY).
According to the indictment, Clancy broke into a home in Mastic Beach in October by punching a hole in a window screen. He then sexually assaulted an elderly woman, whom he told she had a knife.
“Following the abuse, the victim pressed the button on her medical alert system to call for help and Clancy fled the home,” the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
A week later, the defendant sneaked into a second home in Mastic Beach where he attacked another woman over 70 years old. “Clancy then physically and sexually abused the victim.” Both elderly women were treated for their injuries at an area hospital.
He was arrested in October. Clancy has now pleaded guilty to robbery, sexual abuse, assault and “criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation.” He is expected to receive a sentence of 22 years to life in prison when he returns to court on June 21, he noted. DailyNews.
In statements to CBS News the son of one of the victims questioned how Clancy, a sex offender previously accused of rape, was still on the streets assaulting women like his 78-year-old mother.
Court records show Clancy was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 21-year-old girl more than once in 1999. He reportedly threatened that victim with a “knife/cutting instrument” in Suffolk County.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a 2020 study that calls sexual violence in older adults “a major public health problem with a major impact on victims and their peers, their descendants, and the community,” but that has been little investigated.
In a similar case, in May 2023 a 63-year-old woman was assaulted and sexually assaulted inside a business in Jersey City (NJ). Days before, a Hispanic man had been caught on suspicion of suffocating a 68-year-old woman before dragging her to a garage and sexually assaulting her on a street in The Bronx (NYC).
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