ALBANY (NY)
Times-Union
January 5, 2018
By Robert Gavin
Ballston Spa – A former priest convicted of molesting a 13-year-old boy on Long Island in 2003 pleaded guilty Friday to sexually attacking a new young victim on two occasions in Saratoga County.
Michael Hands, 51, admitted to two counts of third-degree criminal sex act, the legal name for sodomy. He faces 7 to 8 years in prison at his March 2 sentencing by Saratoga County Judge James A. Murphy III.
The age and sex of the victim were not disclosed. Hands admitted he engaged in sexual contact with a child younger than 17 in July in the town of Charlton.
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