Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 27-year-old Omar Clark of Buffalo has been sentenced by Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan to 7 years in prison followed by 10 years of post-release supervision. He will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release.

The defendant admitted that on Sunday, March 18, 2018, at approximately 8:30 p.m., he attempted to engage in sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion with a victim on Allen Street in the City of Buffalo. The defendant was not known to the victim, and he was identified through DNA evidence.

Clark pleaded guilty to one count of Attempted Rape in the First Degree, a Class “C” violent felony, on Monday, July 15, 2019.

DA Flynn commends Detectives Jeff Banes and Mark Costantino of the Buffalo Police Department Special Victims Unit for their work in the investigation as well as the DA’s Confidential Criminal Investigators Mike Nigrelli and Mark Vaughn, Crisis Services’ Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Donna Hutchins for BGMC, and Crisis Services advocate Kimberly Rapp.

The case was prosecuted by Rosanne E. Johnson, Chief of the DA’s Special Victims Bureau, and Assistant District Attorney Cathleen M. Roemer of the DA’s Special Victims Bureau.