Rev. James Smith is accused of molesting a Long Island woman when she was 10 or 11 years old at a Queens Catholic School. The woman, Carol Poppito, now 41, said he admitted his perverse behavior in a letter to her, writing I don’t blame you if you curse me. She said Smith had warned her, Don’t tell anybody, and Don’t tell your father, a police lieutenant, about the abuse. She said it wasn’t until she was on a car trip with her mother and other family members in 1991
As Cardinal Edward Egan prepares to leave for Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul II to discuss the sexual abuse scandal, he issued an apology yesterday saying he is deeply sorry if any mistakes were made in handling cases of abuse by priests in either the Archdiocese of New York of the Diocese of Bridgeport.
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Larry Howell, of Erlanger, Ky., has been charged with nine counts of sodomy. Investigators believe he molested as many as 20 boys between the ages of 12 and 15. He allegedly lured children to his home with gifts and money in exchange for sexual favors. Two days after his arrest on November 30, 2001, a woman shot Howell in the groin, just moments after he was released from jail on bond. Howell allegedly molested the woman son. The woman admitted to the shooting in court but will not go to
In a letter to be read in all New York Archdiocese churches this weekend, Edward Cardinal Egan makes a qualified apology for any mistakes he may have made dealing with sex-predator priests in New York and in his old job as bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Egan said, Over the past 15 years, in both Bridgeport and New York, I consistently sought and acted upon the best independent advice available to me from medical experts and behavioral scientists. It is clear that today we have a much better understanding of this
Nassau police are searching for a man they say entered an unlocked bedroom window of a basement apartment in Hempstead and attempted to sodomize the 10 year old boy he found sleeping there. Third Squad Detective William Gray said the man apparently had been watching the boy and the house for some time before making his entry on Thursday. The man had taken off his clothes outside the boy’s window and slipped into the room where the boy was sleeping on a blanket between his bed and the window and
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Pangratios Vrionis, a 58 year old archbishop of an Orthodox church in Queens, was bustedyesterday on child sex assault charges, just weeks after The Post exposed him as a convictedmolester. He is accused of molesting a then 14 year old boy on February 1, 1999. Vrionis showed theboy, who was a student of his, a gay pornographic movie and then touched him sexually by puttinghis hand inside the boy’s pants. The boy and his mother recently told The Post about the allegedassault
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