FORMER CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER IS SENTENCED FOR THE STATUTORY RAPE OF A SIXTEEN YEAR-OLD STUDENT

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that Mildred Colon, a former lay teacher at Cardinal Hayes High School, has been sentenced for engaging in sexual relations with a 16 year old student in 2002.

Acting State Supreme Court Justice William Mogulescu sentenced Colon, 34, of 131 Broome Street, Manhattan, who pled guilty last December to one count of Rape in the 3rd degree, to a determinate term of five months in jail. The People had asked for a term of one year imprisonment. This sentence is to be served concurrently with a sentence of 7 months in jail imposed in a related Manhattan case. In addition to the sentence, a five year order of protection was issued to the victim, and the defendant must register as a sex offender and provide a DNA sample post release.

Detective Investigators from the Bronx District Attorney’s Office arrested Colon on October 2, 2002 after representatives of the Archdiocese of New York notified the Office that the child’s parents had come forward. A subsequent investigation revealed that Colon had sexual intercourse with the victim on three separate occasions last year, on April 5th, June 8th and June 14th, 2002, at the Capri Motel located at 555 Hutchinson River Parkway, Bronx, New York.

Assistant District Attorney Kimberley Capers of the Domestic Violence / Sex Offense Bureau prosecuted this case.