MAN SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING EX-GIRLFRIEND’S DAUGHTER

(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Lucas Hires of Middle Island was sentenced to 25 years in prison and 20 years of post-release supervision after a jury found him guilty in April of one count of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in First Degree and Endangering the Welfare of a child.

“The defendant violated an innocent child in the most horrible way imaginable,” said Tierney.  “And while this sentence will prevent him from hurting other children for a significant amount of time, the trauma he caused will last forever.”

The evidence at trial established that in June of 2019 the victim, now 9-years-old, disclosed to her mother that she was subjected to repeated sexual abuse for nearly a year, beginning when she was 6-years-old.

The victim’s mother then notified the Suffolk County Police Department. The investigation included recording several cell phone calls between the mother and the defendant, as well as the recording of an in-person conversation between the two.

The Police Department recovered bedding from the victim’s bedroom. Analysis by the Suffolk County Crime Laboratory matched the defendant’s DNA to the DNA recovered from the sheets and comforter.

Hires, 42, was found guilty on April 29, 2022, of one count of Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the First Degree, a B violent felony, and one count of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, an A misdemeanor, before the Honorable Timothy Mazzei.  He was represented by Ves Mitev.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Dana Castaldo and Ashley Moruzzi of the Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Bureau.  

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