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A jury will begin considering whether a man should be executed for stabbing 13 year oldCrystal Brooks to death with a fork.  The jury convicted Martiez Davis, 21, of first degreemurder, attempted forcible rape and one count of armed criminal action.  He was acquitted of asecond count of armed criminal action.  In a videotaped confession played to jurors, Davissaid he and a friend named Jeffrey murdered Crystal.  Davis said it was Jeffrey who slashedthe girl’s throat with a knife, but police do not believe Jeffrey even exists.  And a

Neil and Kerry Glazer are seeking $15 million in damages, claiming they were never told that a convicted sex offender lived on the same street where they purchased their home in 1998.  They said when they closed on their Stark Place home, the real estate broker and the seller did not disclose that William Osterer, a former state Assembly candidate, lived nearby and had admitted to sexual abusing two girls, ages 10 and 8.  Osterer, 46, had been sentenced two months earlier to three years’ probation.  According to Newsday, Dean

A sketch of a man who has been linked to a series of abductions of females, mostly from school and public bus stops, during the past nine months, has been updated.  The white man in his 20s or 30s with brown curly hair is a suspect in last weekend’s abduction and sexual assault of an 8 year old girl.

Derric Clancy, an 18-year-old Deer Park man, was arrested and charged with the midday robbery and rape of a North Babylon grocery store employee in a woman’s bathroom at the store.  Employees at the Pathmark store on Route 231 worried about their missing colleague and went to find her.  Clancy was apprehended in the bathroom and held until police arrived.  Clancy apparently followed the woman when she went to the store’s second-floor bathroom about 12:30 p.m. yesterday.  He turned off the light and told her he had a knife and

The New York Times

Trying to Sort Out the Legalities of Megan’s Law [May 16] presented a skewed perception of sexoffender recidivism rates and was unbalanced because it failed to include statistics and otheropinions supporting community notification of the whereabouts of high-risk sex offenders.

Although sex offender treatment will not eliminate sex crimes, research supports the notion thattreatment can decrease sex offenses. However, generalizations about recidivism rates should not bemade because program selection criteria drastically affect resulting rates. For

example, recidivism rates for low-risk sex offenders should not be associated with communitynotification, which

Eric Millar, 47, an RUC constable, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for rape in Belfast Crown Court.  He was convicted of raping a woman several times over a five year period, the rapes began when she was 15.  He was suspended from duty following his arrest.