Matter of Ernest v. v. State of New York

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Buchanan, J.), entered October 19, 2015 in St. Lawrence County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law article 10, for his discharge from confinement at a secure treatment facility.

Petitioner was convicted of his first sex offense—sexual abuse in the first degree—in 1982; at the time of the underlying offense, petitioner was 15 years old and his victim was five years old. While that charge was pending, petitioner lured another five-year-old girl from her porch by offering to take her to a local park.…