A Sullivan County grand jury on Tuesday handed up a 163-count indictment against a convicted sex offender accused of sex acts against two children.
Anthony LaMantia, 56, of Liberty, is charged with repeatedly abusing a girl and a boy from 1998 to 2004. The girl was 10 when the sexual abuse started around 1998, while the boy was 13 in 2001 when he was first abused, court papers say.
If convicted on the top charges of first-degree sodomy and course of sexual conduct against a child, LaMantia faces five to 25 years in prison on each count.
LaMantia was also indicted for first-degree sexual abuse, sodomy in second and third degrees and criminal sexual act in the first and third degrees, felonies.
LaMantia was convicted of rape in 2005 for having sexual intercourse with two other pre-teen acquaintances during the same period. He was sentenced to 10 years probation and stamped a Level 2 sex offender.
Two recent complaints compelled detectives to revisit his case.
An anonymous caller reported that LaMantia was offering to baby-sit children at his apartment complex. He was also caught staring at one of the victims in a local grocery store. Both victims are now young adults and can accurately describe the acts forced on them, authorities say.
"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte
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