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Suresh Jhaveri, 49, the owner of a Valley Stream card store was arrested Tuesday night on charges of luring two 17 year old girls into a back room in his store on separate occasions and fondling them.  He was charged with first and third degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor.  At his arraignment in First District Court in Hempstead yesterday, he pleaded not guilty and was ordered held at the Nassau jail on $150,000 bail.  His next court date is tomorrow.  Jhaveri groped and fondled the

William Osterer, was arrested yesterday and charged with criminal contempt in the second degree for allegedly violating a court order of protection.  Osterer, who ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the 21st State Assembly District in 1990, surrendered to authorities about 8 a.m.  He was arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead yesterday.  The amount of bail set and whether he was released could not be determined last night.  Osterer was arrested in 1996 on charges he sexually abused two girls, ages 10 and 8, who were visiting his home.

Joseph Martin, a 27-year-old married father of two from Sound Beach told his wife, Jennifer that he was taking a troubled young girl into their home.  He was arrested Friday at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, where he had gone to pick up a 12 year old girl, known only as Jane Doe of Columbus, Ohio.  Martin was remanded to Columbus, Ohio, yesterday to face federal charges that he used the Internet to try to lure the girl to him home for sex.  He sent the girl $81

The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that the number of young children killed by their parents or caregivers is underreported by nearly 60 percent.  The study is based on an analysis of North Carolina records but the results reflect the situation nationwide.  According to the Associated Press, caregivers commit 85 percent of the homicides of children 10 and under and strangers are the killers only 3 percent of the time.

Stan Feinstein, 61, a Brooklyn foster father was arrested Monday night, accused of routinely molesting his 10 year old adopted son.  Feinstein had been investigated and cleared of a similar allegation earlier this year.  The boy was adopted in 1997 and before the adoption, the boy had lived with Feinstein for several years as a foster child.  Feinstein has denied the allegations.  He has had at least a half dozen children in his care since 1983.  Investigators are checking whether any of the other children reported sexual abuse.  Feinstein is

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A group of alleged pedophiles who supposedly volunteered with international charities in orderto molest children is being investigated by authorities in Britain and Canada. A string ofincidents in a famine-stricken Ethiopian village involving six aid workers has attracted theattention of Britain’s National Criminal Intelligence Service and Canada’s Royal Canadian MountedPolice. No arrests have been made yet. An article in The Guardian, a British newspaper brought tolight the pedophile ring. It has been reported that pedophiles have infiltrated Switzerland’slargest children’s charity, Terre des Hommes Lausanne and gone to live and