The Supreme Court made it harder yesterday for states to keep sexual offenders locked up after their prison terms, requiring proof that and offender has a mental illness that causes serious difficulty with self-control. Under the court’s 7-2 decision, rapists, child molesters and other sex criminals must be treated the same as other people singled out for involuntary commitment. For states that use commitments to extend violent sex criminals’ time locked away from the public because of concerns about repeat offenders, the ruling was a defeat. The court did not
A 35 year old New York City police officer has been arrested and charged with sodomizing his teenage daughter at his East Islip home on New Year’s Eve. Police believe he has been sexually abusing his daughter for about five years, but he has only been charged with the recent incident. The officer was reported by the girls boyfriend early this month. He was arraigned on one count of third-degree sodomy, a felony, yesterday. He pleaded not guilty and was released on bail of $15,000 cash or $45,000 bond. Third-degree
Jose Saldana Mejia, a 19 year old Holtsville man, was sentenced yesterday to six months in the Suffolk County jail for taking a 13-year-old neighbor to Oklahoma in November. He picked up the girl in his car after she left for school one morning in November and drove her to Enid, Oklahoma where he had relatives. Mejia was arrested three days after she was reported missing. He was charged with first-degree kidnapping but under a deal with prosecutors pleaded guilty last month to unlawful imprisonment. A statutory rape charge is
Scott Tyree, a 38 year old man from Virginia, abducted a 13 year old Pittsburgh girl he met on the Internet and kept her chained to a bed. He was held without bail and faces up to 15 years in prison. This has prompted cops to warn parents to closely monitor the Internet activities of their children.
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A West Hempstead woman pleaded not guilty in Central Islip yesterday to charges that she and her husband videotaped themselves taking part in sexual activities with their 7 year old daughter. Both of their names are not being printed to avoid revealing the identity of the victim. John Jacobs, the court appointed attorney for the woman asked federal District court Judge Leonard Wexler to order a psychiatric examination of her and to appoint a private investigator to look into her background. He believed the woman had been a victim of
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John Shelton raped and sodomized his former girlfriend’s 17 year old daughter for years. Butthere was little justice for the Wyandanch girl yesterday in watching the man she called Daddyget sent to jail in Riverhead. He could have been sentenced to 9 2/3 to 35 years in prison butSuffolk County Court Judge Stephen Braslow instead kept his agreement with Shelton and sentencedhim to 1 year in jail. With time already served since his arrest last year, he could be free assoon as April. Last month he pleaded guilty to
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