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Joseph Kess, wearing a light blue shirt, who admitted on Thursday to harassing a same-sex couple during a Mother's Day attack in Patchogue in May, appears in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead.
Joseph Kess, 40, and an accomplice urinated on a same-sex couple's vehicle before punching one of the women in the face and dragging the other onto a dock and nearly pushing her into the water ...
Prosecutors told the judge that Joseph Kess taunted the couple with obscenities, urinated on their car and punched one of them in the face during the anti-LGBTQ+ attack.