Guide Note

July 9, 2008: Former attorney Beth Modica was sentenced to two years in prison for having sexual relations with two of her 16-year-old son's friends from the Suffern Mounties Hockey Team.^{1 2}

Fast Facts

1. Age: 44
2. Residence: Sloatsburg, New York
3. Former assistant district attorney in Rockland and Queens counties, New York
4. Marital status: Separated from Spring Valley, New York, Police Chief Paul Modica
5. Four children
6. Former PTA president³
7. Plead not guilty at an arraignment on January 22, 2008
8. Charged with 35 counts of statutory rape, criminal sex acts, sex abuse and endangering children⁴
9. Was released on $75,000 bail
10. Sentenced to two years in prison and 10 years probation⁵
11. Daughter testified against her in court⁵
12. Children requested prison time for their mother¹

"We were competing for the same 15-year-old boy. I was betrayed by both of them."—Danielle Modica¹

"At some point in your life you decided to become a manipulator, a conniver and a sexual predator. You had unprotected sex with children. You gave them drugs and alcohol. ... Some of these acts took place in your home with your children present."—Catherine Bartlett, Rockland County Judge¹