Man Pleads Guilty To Abusing Children

A former College Point resident has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing seven children - five of whom had gone to his house to play with his own children.
The victims were five girls and two boys ranging in age from seven to eleven.
District Attorney Richard A. Brown said, “The defendant has admitted to preying on young children for his own degenerate pleasure. In each instance, he would isolate the child, either inside his van or in his own home, and sexually abuse them. In the process, he destroyed their innocence. As such, the sentence to be imposed is more than warranted.”
The defendant has been identified as Michael Flory, 49, a mechanic who formerly resided in College Point and who presently lives at 91 Poplar Street in West Hempstead on Long Island.
The defendant pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree and four counts of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grosso who presided over the guilty plea proceedings, indicated that he would sentence the defendant on June 28, 2006, to concurrent terms of 23 years in prison on each of the first degree charges and concurrent terms of seven years in prison on each of the second degree charges.
District Attorney Brown said that, in pleading guilty, the defendant admitted that, between March 1, 2004 and March 11, 2005, he sexually abused the seven children inside his former College Point residence or in his van parked outside the home.