People v. Nickel

Peters, J.P. (concurring in part and dissenting in part).

I dissent solely on the issue of sentence. I fail to find that the circumstances herein warrant modification of the sentence in the interest of justice.

Defendant pursued employment and volunteer positions that would place vulnerable children in his care and then victimized them for his own sexual gratification. Defendant maintained throughout these proceedings that such exploitation of these children was an acceptable expression of love, believing that they did not contest his sexual violation of them. These events were further…