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A hideous dark secret has been exposed at Adlai Stevenson HS with the recently videotaped confession of Irwin Goldberg that he sexually abused a former student 20 years ago and exposed himself in the school to try to rekindle the relationship when the former student confronted him about the past abuse. Former Stevenson teacher Jeff Zeitlin and another educator who didn’t want to be named, charge that the school was a veritable candy store for a group of child-molesting educators who brazenly seduced children because they knew their co-workers didn’t

In April Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon said that all allegations of sexual abuse against Catholic priests sent to this office by the Diocese of Rockville Centre are too old to be prosecuted.  He described the investigation as thorough.  We have thoroughly reviewed every matter referred to us by the diocese, as well as allegations brought to our attention by other sources, Dillon said at an afternoon news conference.  He said all of the allegations occurred beyond the state’s five-year statute of limitations and some of the cases his

Bernard Cardinal Law had a lot to say yesterday about the growing financial threat the ever increasing number of priest sex abuse cases poses to the church.  But he left out the words I’m sorry to the 86 victims of one cleric who thought they had finally sealed a court settlement for their suffering only to have it pulled at the last minute.

(Boston, Massachusetts)

Cardinal Bernard Law acknowledged the pain caused by the archdiocese’s withdrawal from a settlement with those plaintiffs and said he would seek an equitable solution as angry lawyers for 86 alleged sexual-abuse victims promised a renewed legal assault.  Law explained that the archdiocese’s Finance Council had rejected the agreement because of what he called a laudable concern about the growing number of victims and the church’s diminishing resources.  The settlement would have been worth $15 million to $30 million.

(Boston, Massachusetts)

Juan Castro, 21, of 31 Yates Street, West Babylon was arraigned yesterday on charges that he and another man, Oscar Hernandez, 23, of Central Islip, raped and sodomized two 12 year old girls at a Westbury motel April 24.  Castro is charged with rape, sodomy, statutory sodomy, and two counts of statutory rape.  He is being held in Nassau County jail in lieu of $200,000 cash or $100,000 bond bail.  Hernandez is charged with statutory rape and attempted statutory rape.  

(New York)

On April 18, the Supreme Court ruled that parts of a law prohibiting virtual child pornography – representations of children and teens having sex that are produced by computer imaging programs – were overly broad and unconstitutional.  Attorney General John Ashcroft and House members began their fight yesterday for legislation that would bypass the decision.  The new legislation would tighten the definition of child pornography and prevent defendants from foiling prosecution by raising the theoretical possibility that the material is created through computer imaging.