This was posted online this morning in the news...
A former prosecutor and PTA president had sex with two underage boys, joined other teens in booze and pot parties and kept it all a secret from her police-chief husband, Rockland County officials said Tuesday.
Beth Modica, 44, was indicted on 35 counts alleging statutory rape, criminal sex acts, sex abuse and endangering children. Wearing handcuffs and an olive-gray suit, she pleaded not guilty at her arraignment in Rockland County Court and was ordered held on $75,000 bail.
"These are serious charges, against children in her community," said Judge Catherine Bartlett.
Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said Modica had intercourse and oral sex with a 16-year-old boy and oral sex with a 15-year-old boy last summer. He also said that she served and shared alcohol and marijuana with "many" other teens from Suffern High School at her Sloatsburg home or in her car.
Modica was an assistant district attorney in Queens and Rockland in the 1980s and 1990s, and until this month was attorney for the Town of Ramapo and the Village of Sloatsburg, but was not reappointed to the yearly term.
Zugibe said Modica's husband, Spring Valley Police Chief Paul Modica, "was not involved, was unaware and was not present when the alleged acts occurred. ... I have only the greatest respect for Chief Modica."
He would not comment on whether the couple's four children, including a son at the high school, were aware of the alleged crimes.
Ramapo Police Chief Peter Brower, whose force covers Sloatsburg, said the investigation began Dec. 31, when his department received a complaint in the mail. He would not say who sent it.
How do you think this ladies kids and husband are feeling right now? I feel bad for them... They must be devastated! Not sure how nobody knew about this though???? I bet more details will come out... she is a total disgrace to other mothers and women in general..