MAN CHARGED IN SEX ASSAULT OF BAY SHORE GIRL, 12

Clarence A. Nichols, a 49 year old Lynn, Massachusetts man, was arrested yesterday after he had oral sex with a 12 year old Bay Shore girl who he met in an Internet chat room in July, in a Holiday Inn Express on Express Drive South in Hauppauge.  Nichols was charged with a first degree criminal sexual act, a felony punishable by a maximum term of 25 years.

(New York)