Pine Bush man pleads guilty in child sex case

On Thursday, October 31, Allan Bressler, 73, of Pine Bush, pled guilty in Orange County Court to “course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree,” Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced. Under the plea agreement, the District Attorney’s Office will recommend that Bressler be sentenced to 18 years in state prison and to be followed by 10 years of post-release supervision. The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced on February 20, 2025.

According to Hoovler’s announcement, Bressler admitted that “between March 1, 2008, and February 1, 2013, in the vicinity of his Pine Bush home, he engaged in two or more acts of sexual conduct, which included at least one act of oral sexual contact, with a child less than 11 years old.”

“I commend the Child Abuse Task Force for their work on this case, and other cases where the passage of time makes the investigation of sexual abuse against children more difficult,” said Hoovler. “Offenders who have engaged in the abuse of children should never be able to think that they have escaped punishment by the passage of time. Those who have survived sexual exploitation as children deserve every support we can offer. At age 73, this offender may, or may not, live long enough to complete his sentence, but the children of our community are safer every day that he remains incarcerated.”