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A groundbreaking new e-mail system that will provide people with automatic alerts of sexual predators who move into neighborhoods should be up and running on Long Island by March 24.  Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center, said the system, funded with a $593,000 federal grant announced yesterday, should be in operation statewide in April and nationally by May 1.  She said she expects hundreds of thousands of parents nationwide to sign up to get alerts.  Sex offenders are getting better at what

Federal funding for a Long Island-based computer mapping and e-mail alert system will provide people nationwide with updates when a registered sex offender moves into their neighborhood, a New York congressional delegation is set to announce today.  Parents for Megan’s Law, the Stony Brook-based nonprofit advocacy group, will get a $593,000 grant to build an e-mail alert system that allows users to receive alerts when a sex offender moves into a specific zip code.  The federal money will also be used to expand the National Megan’s law Helpline, which is

Ethiopian Review

Jill Campbell, a 45 year old British teacher faces jail in Ethiopia after being convicted ofdefamation for her role in exposing paedophiles working in Swiss charity Terre Des Hommes-Lausanne(TdH), a children’s charity.  Campbell and her husband Gary complied a dossier of evidencethat helped to convict a British sex offender who admitted having a sexual relationship with achild in his care.  A second suspect committed suicide.  The charity admitted that abusehad taken place at its care facilities in the village of Jari, but denied the Campbells’accusations that senior staff

In 2006, James Barbour, a 40 year old veteran actor, quietly surrendered to New York police on charges he seduced a 15 year old aspiring actress.  Barbour was first arrested in L.A. but was freed with the understanding that he would return to New York to face the sexual assault and sodomy charges.  He allegedly had sex with the girl in 2001 in a dressing room.  It is unclear why she waited five years to report the alleged statutory rape.

Barbour laid his furry mitts on yet a second underage

Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott, a 38 year old U.S. Marine who was accused of raping a 14 year old girl in southern Japan, has been released after prosecutors dropped the charges at the teenager’s request.  Hadnott was arrested on February 10 on suspicion of raping the girl, fueling nationwide furor over crimes involving American troops in Japan.  

Maria R. Commins, a 39 year old Greenport Elementary School teacher’s aide, was arrested for raping and serving alcohol to a 15 year old boy in a Riverhead hotel room.  The boy is a friend of Commins’ son, and both the woman and the victim told police they were in love.  Police said the pair also had sexual contact on at least one previous occasion in Commins’ Ford Taurus.  In the close-knit Greenport School District, where one building houses students from kindergarten through 12th grade, even first-graders have asked their