Monsignor Desmond Vella, a confidant to Edward Cardinal Egan and one of the most powerful clerics in the Archdiocese of New York has been sent to a church-run rehabilitation clinic in Minnesota known for treating priests with substance and sex-abuse problems.
Donna Nichols and her younger sister Darlene LoSordo told a grand jury yesterday how they were repeatedly abused as teenage girls by the same Roman Catholic priest, Nicholas Unterstein, at a Huntington Station parish more than 30 years ago. While Unterstein cannot face criminal prosecution, Nichols, now 48, of East Northport, said testifying gave her a sense of freedom. Unterstein can’t be criminally prosecuted for raping the sisters because so much time has passed. And the diocese can’t be made financially liable for his actions. Nichols quietly received a civil
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Ricky Lawrence Jackson, 41, was arrested earlier this month on charges of first and seconddegree rape, first and second degree sodomy, and incest involving an underage girl. KatrinaBlagburn, Jackson’s 33 year old niece, alleges years of sexual abuse by her uncle who is sevenyears her elder. She said she was 5 and her uncle almost a teen when the attacks began. He oftenbabysat her and would slip into her bedroom late at night. By age 6, she said, she had been raped.One Christmas Eve, the uncle forced
Five of the 10 priests listed as retiring this year from the Diocese of Rockville Centre had their priestly faculties removed recently because of allegations of sexual misconduct. The Long Island Catholic, a weekly newspaper published by the Roman Catholic diocese, listed the priests in an article about new priest assignments, including retirements. The article did not mention misconduct charges, although the newspaper published a story earlier mentioning allegations against two of the men. The other five priests retiring had no charges against them. Those retiring priests who have allegations
Keith Vischio, a Staten Island man who bludgeoned 10 year old Lorraine Pacifico with a rock on July 7, 1980, has a parole hearing this week. The father of the girl who was brutally sexually attacked and murdered 22 years ago told The Post his daughter’s murderer shouldn’t be released on parole — or he’ll kill the man himself. If he comes out, I am gonna kill him, and I will go to the top of the Empire State Building and shout it out at the top of my lungs,
Elkech Leon, Parrish Jones and Jonathan Mendoza, all 18 at the time of the 1999 attack, were charged with sodomy, kidnapping, sexual abuse and assault on a then 16 year old female student in a Bayside High School bathroom. Each of them faced more than 65 years in jail. All admitted to the attack in graphic written and videotaped statements. Leon, who sodomized the victim, told authorities he wanted to see how it felt to be a rapist. Jones also sodomized the victim and told authorities that he found it