Joseph S. Mlyniec,60, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison on Wednesday afternoon after pleading guilty to murder 2nd degree, a class A-1 felony, last month.
Mlyniec intentionally shot and killed Robert Irvine III, 32, of Perry, shooting him four times on March 7, 2018 at 2468 Rt. 246 in Perry, Mlyniec’s residence.
Before sentencing, Irvine’s girlfriend spoke to the court.
She says on March 7, 2018 her life changed forever.
“When I told Robbie good-bye, I love you, have a good day at work, I didn’t know or imagine that would be the last time I ever saw him, until the day I had to look at him in the casket, and because of Joe, it wasn’t the face I kissed a few days prior,” says Christine King.
“It was reconstruction and make up, damage to the point that friends and family couldn’t properly say goodbye, to a point his daughter couldn’t look at her dad and say goodbye.”
“His stuff still sits in the house, not being touched, used or moved. His pictures are all I have left to see him. All I have left are the memories.”
Irvine’s sister Kimberly Schroth then read several letters to the court from her family.
“As you shot my brother as he begged you to stop, do you know what you did?”
“No you only give a shit about yourself , you not only ruined many lives including my little brother and his little girl Brooklyn who now lives with me and misses her daddy so badly, “says Schroth.
“She will never get a chance to do more things with her daddy because of you Mr. Mlyniec, you are despicable. I hope your demons haunt you for the rest of your life. I hope you never see the light of day in the free world again, you should be ashamed. A double life that you led for 30 years.”
Joseph Mlyniec then took a deep breath and turned towards the family of Robert Irvine and apologized.
“I would like to apologize to the people of Wyoming County, the Sheriff’s Department and Rob’s family. Robbie was a friend of mine for over 10 years and I have to live with that burden and I realize that, you think I should spend the rest of my life in prison and I guess if God wills it , God wills it.”
I can’t make anything better, I can’t try to explain what I did or didn’t do and I am sorry. I know I can’t say anything…..Irivine’s sister then spoke up, “You’re right. its doesn’t bring him back…Mylneic responded, “You’re right it doesn’t.
Judge Michael Mohun then sentenced Mlyniec to 15 years to life in prison.
“Mr Mlyniec you led a secret life,” said Judge Mohun.
“On the surface you were a respected part of society, a deputy sheriff, a veteran, a member of various civic organizations and yet your secret life revealed itself to be much darker, much more sinister. You exercised power over these young men, you exercised control over these young men and when they shattered the bonds of your power and were going to reveal who you really were, you shot him four times.
“Mr. Irvine was murdered because he threatened to tell the truth, that is as simple as I can put it.”
All three of you lied but two of you are full of drama. YOU, Kim, were NO sister! You’re right, he did look up to you but you were hateful and rotten to HIM. He would try to speak to you and you would snub him and tell him not to talk to you and called him names. Don’t you dare try to come off as a loving sister. Sandy was the sister who Robbie loved and knew he could count on. You are ignorant. Your lies will catch up with you, too. You don’t know the whole story because your brother did not tell it to you. You pretend to know. Your father is despicable and he served time for those crimes, crimes against children and certainly not consensual in any way! Christina was not his girlfriend as clearly Robbie’s status on fb stated SINGLE. Anybody who knows him knows he liked his status known when he was in a relationship. Clearly you don’t have a clue who he was involved with. You jumped into the spotlight because he was not here to discredit you. I wonder what people would think if they saw all the texts of you bad mouthing Robbie, the one you claimed to love so much. You are a joke. Lastly for you all who think Joe was such a horrible person he had relationships that were consensual. It was not until this murder that those who chose to have repeated intimate relations with Joe came out of the woodwork to make this something it was not. You do not come to someone’s home several times a week and join in play time over and over again if you don’t want to. These select few guys were not on paper and were of their own free will. What Joe did to make him a bad person was take the life of another human being. There are many truths that are not know because the right people were not asked. I hope Joe walks out of prison one day. I will be rooting for him. A physical prison is not what is going to make him pay but it will be the prison of his own mind that does. I can tell you this only proves to me that you cannot trust the legal system or the news paper or even the people supposedly close to the situation. It’s a shame.
I don’t know who you are but thanks so much for sticking up for me I really miss my baby brother he use to call me late at night when he was depressed