New York Times/Sewell Chan
In 2005, 7.5 percent of young people in the city’s public schools reported thatthey had been raped at some point, which also matches the national average, but is an increase fromthe city’s rate of 5.6 percent in 2001.
German Zamora, a 24 year old Westbury man, was arrested after he brought his computer to a Best Buy on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown for repairs and the service technician found child pornography on it. Zamora is charged with possession of a sexual performance of a child.
(New York)
Alex Kelly, 40, Connecticut’s preppy rapist, who spent eight years on the lam in Europe, skiing and partying while avoiding trial, was up for parole in 2005 after serving less than half of his sentence, leaving the victims he brutally attacked as teens outraged. In 1986, Kelly was 18 and a Darien High School wrestling star from a wealthy family. He already had been in prison for a series of house burglaries linked to a drug dependency when he raped his 16 year old neighbor, Adrienne Bak, as he drove
Norma Giannini, a 79 year old Roman Catholic nun, pleaded no contest yesterday to two counts of indecent behavior with a child for alleged sexual encounters with two male students at a church convent and school where she was principal during the 1960s. She faces a maximum 10 years on each count when sentenced February 1.
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Daily News
David Spears, 25, the stepfather of 9-year-old Rowan Ford who vanished while in his care lastweekend, was arrested along with his friend Chris Collings, 32, and charged with her murder andrape. Her body was found Friday in a cave in a remote part of McDonald County, about 10 miles southof the village of Stella, where she lived with her mother, Colleen Spears, 44. The mother wasworking a night shift at a Wal-Mart in a nearby town. Collings confessed that each man raped thegirl and one of them strangled her
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Authorities in South Florida are re-examing statements in the unsolved 1981 slaying of 6 yearrnold Adam Walsh if serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer might have murdered him. The possible connectionrnwith the 26 year old case and Dahmer, who was convicted in the deaths of at least 17 men and boysrnfrom 1978 to 1991, some of which involved dismemberment and cannibalism, follows calls from twornretired FBI agents to re-examine the possibility that Dahmer abducted and killed Walsh inrnHollywood, Florida.
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