Conviction, sentence upheld in sex-abuse case
An appeals court has upheld the sex abuse conviction and imprisonment of Michael J. Spicola, a founder of a youth soccer league in Eden.
In a unanimous ruling, the five-judge Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Rochester supported Spicola’s April 30, 2007, conviction and Aug. 9, 2007, sentencing by Senior Erie County Judge Michael L. D’Amico.
Attorneys for Spicola, 52, currently serving a 12-year prison term in Coxsackie Correctional Facility, could not be reached to comment about whether they planned an appeal to the state’s high court in Albany.
Spicola, who also had served as transportation supervisor and a bus driver for the North Collins School District, was convicted of abusing a young boy on “at least three separate occasions” in the spring of 1999 and the summer and fall of 2000 in his North Collins home.
The victim, a friend of Spicola’s son and stepchildren, was participating in sleep-overs.
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