Court Opinion

ID: 5904236
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 03:31:33.73374+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:45:47.121293
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Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene D. Goldberg, J.), entered November 18, 2011, which adjudicated defendant a level two sexually violent offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s application for a downward departure (see People v Cintron, 12 NY3d 60, 70 [2009], cert denied sub nom. Knox v New York 558 US 1011 [2009]; People v Mingo, 12 NY3d 563, 568 n 2 [2009]). The mitigating factors asserted by defendant were adequately taken into account by the risk assessment instru*589ment, and were outweighed by the seriousness of the underlying sex crimes against a child (see e.g. People v Melendez, 83 AD3d 448 [1st Dept 2011]). Although defendant describes his sexual relationship with the victim as consensual, we note that it began when the victim was only 11 years old. Concur—Tom, J.P., Sweeny, Renwick, Abdus-Salaam and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.