LEICESTER - Livingston County Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty
reports the arrest of a Leicester NY resident on felony sexual assault charges
after an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office.
On August 31, 2020 Sheriff’s Investigators arrested and
charged 32-year-old Christopher L. Wilmet with Predatory Sexual Assault Against
a Child (a class A-II felony), Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child in the
1st Degree (a class B felony), and Rape in the 1st Degree (a class B felony).
It is alleged through investigation that between May of 2016
and May of 2020, Wilmet had sexual contact on several occasions with a juvenile
victim who was less than the age of 13 during the time frame of the incidents.
Wilmet was turned over to Central Booking Deputies at the
Livingston County Jail for processing and pre-arraignment detention as the
offenses did qualify for pre-arraignment detention under the NYS Justice Reform
Act. The District Attorney’s Office was contacted in regards to bail due to the
felony level offenses, it was recommended that Wilmet be held without the
chance of bail due to fact the one of the charges was an A-II felony and that Wilmet
has multiple previous felony level convictions.
Wilmet was later arraigned at the Livingston County
Centralized Arraignment Part (LC-CAP) at the Livingston County Jail before Town
of Nunda Justice Emily Stoufer. The Judge remanded him to jail without bail.
