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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released an audit yesterday of the state sex offender registry that, while generally positive, found significant flaws with its administration.  According to the findings, one-fourth of the records investigators surveyed had mismatched  driver’s license information and, in some cases, license details for the wrong people were given out as those of offenders.  Auditors randomly sampled license data for 200 of the state’s 23,000 registered sex offenders, and found a quarter of the records did not match.  Advocates for victims of sexual abuse welcomed the audit findings.

Julio Rojas, 31, and Sophie Soto, 22, of 46-20 104th Street in Corona, were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court Saturday on 56 counts for acts including statutory rape and sexual abuse that authorities said they committed on two girls under 15.  The couple, both strippers, used MySpace to meet the girls, get them drunk, have sex with them and coerce them into performing a striptease dance in a Manhattan club, where they had oral sex with patrons of the club.  Rojas was ordered held on $500,000 bail and Soto held

On the same day MySpace and the attorneys general for 49 states announced an agreement that will allow parents to have their kids’ email addresses blocked from the social networking site, a Tampa man met two girls, aged 14 and 12, through MySpace and met up with them to have sex.  After the 14 year old confided in her parents about what happened, the police arrested the pervert after he attempted a second meeting with the younger girl.  

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MySpace, the world’s most popular online hangout, promised yesterday to take steps to protect youngsters from sexual predators and bullies, including searching for ways to verify users’ ages.  Under mounting pressure from law enforcement and parents, MySpace promised to create a task force to watch over its operations.  Parry Aftab, executive director of Wiredsafety.org, a children’s Internet safety group, estimates that 20 percent of teens have met someone online that they had never met in person, and there are numerous examples of sexual abuse arising from MySpace encounters.

Suffolk detectives are scouring Mastic Beach in search of a man who they say attacked and sexually assaulted a 17 year old high school student as she walked to school yesterday, the second such attack on a student there in three days.  The girl was attacked about 8:30 a.m. on her way to William Floyd High School by a man who jumped out of a patch of woods, struck her in the face, wrestled her to the ground and fondled her.  The girl screamed, punched and fought off her attacker,

Gary Meenahan, a 45 year old Shirley man who until recently had been homeless, is charged with third-degree sexual abuse, second-degree attempted criminal sexual act and criminal impersonation after he went into a trailer on an abandoned property on Mastic Beach Road and sexually abused a 14 year old girl.  For about the next three hours Meenahan kept the girl inside the trailer, only letting her free when she convinced him she needed to get on the 2:15 p.m. bus home from school.  The girl skipped school to hang out