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dailymail.co.uk 2/1/13 The devastated father of the 23 year old student who died after being brutally gang-raped ona moving bus in New Delhi has described her as ‘the hero’ of her family.  ‘Without her we arelost,’ said her grief-stricken father, ‘I want them to hang.’  The girl was savagely attackedwhen she boarded a bus with a male friend after a trip to the cinema on December 16.  The buswas under the control of six men out for a joyride.  In an hour-long ordeal, the girl wasrepeatedly rape and brutalized, and

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Jesus Ramirez, 22, who formerly dated 14 year old Ruby Zavala in secret, is believed to haveallegedly used the girl’s mother’s truck to take Ruby, along with her mother and sister from theparking lot of Saint Michael’s Catholic Church in Mount Pleasant, Texas, at knifepoint.  Theex-boyfriend was obsessed with her, police say.  He released the mother and sister, thenfled with Ruby.  The two were force to break up after the parents found out about herrelationship with Ramirez in March.  He was charged with sexual assault of a child at

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Allan Concepcion, a 38 year old substitute teacher, who also coaches girls’ sports,was charged with rape Tuesday after a sexual encounter with a 16 year old from a Manorvilleschool earlier this year.  Concepcion, of 19 Salisbury Run, Mount Sinai, worked atEastport-South Manor Junior-Senior High School as a substitute and volleyball coach.  He alsocoaches the Long Island Fury, a girls’ volleyball club, and girls gymnastics at Hampton BaysMiddle School.  He was arraigned on third degree rape, a felony charge, and endangering thewelfare of a child.  The student is under the

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Nassau police have stepped up patrols around schools in Merrick and Bellmore after ninereports so far this month of men approaching or following children as they walked or biked to andfrom schools.  Authorities said more than one person may be involved but suspect one man isresponsible for the majority of the occurrences.  Police released a drawing of a man whom theysaid is a person of interest in several of the incidents, including one April 10 inBellmore.  He is described as in his late 30s with a mustache and bushy

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Thomas Sheppard, a 27 year old Westhampton Beach Middle School gym teacher, pleaded notguilty Monday to an indictment that accuses him of making a cellphone video recording of his femaleeighth-grade students undressing in the locker room after class.  Sheppard, of Speonk, ischarged with second degree unlawful surveillance, a felony, and seven counts of endangering thewelfare of a child, a misdemeanor.  Bail is set at $25,000 bond, which Sheppard has posted.
(New York) 

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Thomas Sheppard, a 27 year old Westhampton Beach Middle School gym teacher, pleaded notguilty Monday to an indictment that accuses him of making a cellphone video recording of his femaleeighth-grade students undressing in the locker room after class.  Sheppard, of Speonk, ischarged with second degree unlawful surveillance, a felony, and seven counts of endangering thewelfare of a child, a misdemeanor.  Bail is set at $25,000 bond, which Sheppard has posted.
(New York)