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Newsday/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

Richard Himbele, a 31 year old Lindenhurst man, arrived at a Selden parking lot on March 13expecting to meet a 12 year old girl he had been having sexual chats with on the Internet. Threedays earlier, Mitchell Kaplan, a 51 year old man from Middle Village, took the Long Island Railroadfrom Queens to meet a 13 year old girl he planned to take back to his apartment to have sex.Instead, both men were greeted by Suffolk detectives with handcuffs. For about six weeks, both menbelieved they were communicating

The Suffolk County district attorney’s office plans to empanel a special grand jury to investigate sexual abuse allegations against priests in the Diocese of Rockville Centre and how the diocese handled those allegations. The grand jury would be empaneled for the sole purpose of hearing evidence related to the growing scandal on Long Island. The request is awaiting final approval by state court officials, which is considered pro forma. Msgr. Charles Bud Ribaudo, 63, the longtime and popular pastor of St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church in Oyster Bay, one of

Newsday/Shirley E. Perlman

Michael Allen, 24, was convicted of sodomizing a 12 year old boy during sleepover camp in OldBrookville last year. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being referred to by the judgeas a predatory animal. Police said that in July of 1999 Allen slipped into the boy’s dorm room ata C.W. Post baseball camp, threw a towel over his head and sodomized him at knifepoint. Police saidthat he also sodomized other boys in their dorm rooms at a Dutchess County boarding school and aNew Jersey prep

New York state’s Amber Alert system was activated for the first time on March 7, 2003, at the request of New Jersey police who were looking for a kidnapped girl.  Angel M. Rivera, 26, is accused of abducting his 2 year old daughter and taking her on a 26 hour odyssey and will likely face numerous charges.  He abducted his daughter at gunpoint at a New Jersey hotel in a bitter custody dispute.  The search ended at 11:20 a.m. when cops plucked little Angela Rivera and her father from a

A woman, identified only as 50 year old Christa W., was arrested in connection to the disappearance of 5 year old Pascal Zimmer and authorities have uncovered horrifying evidence of a pedophilia ring.  Allegations that the woman sexually abused children and made them available to patrons of her bar came out after investigators found pornographic materials in her home.  Twelve other people, regulars at her bar, have since been arrested on suspicion they all sexually abused and murdered Zimmer.  Two more have been arrested only on sex abuse charges.  Authorities

A 12 year old boy was arrested yesterday for sodomizing a 12 year old girl inside the R.T. Hudson School in the Claremont section.  They are both students at the school located at 1122 Forest Avenue.

(Bronx, New York)