Robert Ruggiero, a 25 year old teacher on leave from Oceanside Middle School, has been arrested by federal agents on a charge of buying and distributing child pornography over the Internet. He was arraigned in federal District Court in Central Islip on Friday. He paid $60 for what he thought were videos of pre-teenage girls engaged in sexual activities and sent similar pictures he had over the Internet. He was released on Friday on $100,000 bail pending further hearings by federal Magistrate Michael Orenstein.
(New York)
A 25 year old Dix Hills truck driver, who is not being identified because in doing so would identify the alleged victim, is charged with sodomizing his daughter since she was three months old. He also offered to swap her so he could have sex with other men’s young daughters. The girl is now 4 years old. The man, who is a cola company truck driver, is facing a maximum of 286 years in prison if convicted of the charges in the 51 count indictment. Police became aware of him
Kevin Dern, a former music teacher at the exclusive Greenwich Academy girls’ school, resigned after cops raided his Greenwich home and seized videotapes, computers and computer discs. He ran a Web site featuring sexy photos of Long Island cheerleaders. Some of the tapes contained pornography. The Web site run by Dern, cheervideos.com, featured photos and videos of the girls at cheerleading competitions at Long Island high schools, there were close-ups as the girls jumped up or bent over. The Web site has been shut down. Dern, 29, now of Bensalem,
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Jeffrey Pierce, 39, was convicted of rape in 1986 and lost his freedom and his family. Hismarriage ended in divorce and his wife left Oklahoma to raise their twin infant sons as if he didnot exist. He has maintained his innocence for 15 years and was freed because DNA testing refutedthe crucial testimony against him from an Oklahoma City police chemist long accused of shoddy workand now the focus of one of the most wide-ranging investigations into a police laboratory. Pierceleft prison this afternoon with his mother and brother,
Rabbi Baruch Lanner, a 51 year old New Jersey rabbi, resigned from a national organization last year after several former students said he sexually abused them. The rabbi asked a judge to dismiss all charges although he pleaded not guilty earlier this year to charges of criminal sexual contact. He said the girls fabricated the charges because they had conflicts with him while he ran a high school in Monmouth County.
(New Jersey)
Randolph Standifer, 21, kidnapped, raped and abandoned a 9 month old girl in a wooded area. He was charged with kidnapping, capital sexual battery and attempted first degree murder, and was being held without bail. He faces a possible life sentence if convicted. He told detectives he took the baby from her crib Saturday morning. He is a friend of the baby’s family and had spent the night at their home after a party. He confessed after failing a polygraph and also gave directions to where he had left the
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