Sex offender who avoided charges for 1975 Greenburgh rape sentenced for non-registration
A convicted rapist whose responsibility for the 1975 rape of a Greenburgh teenager went undetected for more than four decades was sentenced Thursday for his failure to register as a sex offender.
Robert Goods, 74, who was also convicted of failing to register five years ago, was again spared prison time and sentenced to one year in the county jail.
DNA testing last year identified Goods as the man who raped the 17-year-old Greenburgh girl as she walked home from Woodlands High School on May 22, 1975, and exonerated the man who served seven years in prison following his conviction in the case, Leonard Mack.
Goods went on to commit a rape in Queens two weeks after raping the teenager. He was convicted for that and later for the sodomy of a Greenburgh woman in 2004 after he broke into her home.
He was labeled a Level 3 sex offender, the most serious, and required to regularly report to the local police department where he lived.
He could not be prosecuted for the 1975 rape because of the statute of limitations.
Goods twice failed to register when he was living in Greenburgh seven years ago. He served time in the county jail and then was living in New Rochelle. When he moved to Pelham, he registered with the police department but twice failed to report to them every days 90 days as required.
Goods pleaded guilty in March. Assistant District Attorney Michelle Lopez on Thursday requested state prison time based on Goods' previous conviction for the same failure to register.
But state Supreme Court Justice James McCarty cited his acceptance of responsibility, advanced age and significant health issues for imposing only the jail term. Goods is eligible for release, as he has been at the jail since early August.
He expects to live at the Volunteers of America shelter in Valhalla.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: 1975 Greenburgh rapist sentenced for non-registration as sex offender
