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8/7/01

Raymond Michael Seybert, a 21 year old convicted sex offender, was convicted last year ofsexually assaulting a 9 year old girl in Butler, Pa., after police arrested him in Houston.Seybert, as a convicted sex offender, was supposed to register his whereabouts under Megan’s Lawbut he found a loophole. He registered under Megan’s Law with a false address, he used hisgrandmother’s house in Sarver, Butler County, but lived with his parents in a trailer park in PennTownship. So, neighbors never knew about him until WTAE-TV’s Ted Koppy told them. On July

The Parents For Megan’s Law and Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Center marked their opening in Stony Brook last week.  Attending were Suffolk County Executive Robert Gaffney, state Senator James Lack and county legislators.  With the help of $196,000 in county and state funds, the information clearinghouse and resource center moved into its new home, a four-office suite in a Stony Brook strip mall on Nesconset Highway.  Laura Ahearn, the center’s founder and executive director, provided those services out of her Stony Brook home for the past two years.  It started

Taxpayers are getting socked for the hundreds of shocking sexual attacks and other assaults committed against kids in public schools, shelling out $18.7 million to victims over the past five years, according to city records.  There are 110 sex assault cases filed since 1999 that are still pending.  Here are some of the things the $18.7 million spent settling school-attack lawsuits could buy:

– 284 veteran teachers.

– Summer school for 40,000 kids.

– Half-day pre-kindergarten classes for 5,000 kids.

– 180 library books for every elementary and middle school

There used to be a home across the street from Richard and Maureen Kanka’s house but now there is a small park with flowers, benches and a goldfish pond fed by a small waterfall. That home is where, seven years ago, Jesse Timmendequas, a convicted sex offender, raped, beat and strangled their 7 year old daughter Megan.  He has since been sentenced to death.  Since then, laws bearing Megan’s name have sprung up all over the country, requiring convicted sex offenders to register with authorities.  New Jersey expanded its version

Patrolman Jeffrey M. Goetschius, 36, allegedly solicited sex from a teenager on the Internet and was arrested Thursday.  He allegedly solicited sex from a 15 year old southern New Jersey boy in an Internet chat room used by children and he also had telephone contact with the victim.  When the boy’s mother learned of the Internet chat, she contacted police.  Goetschius was suspected pending termination and was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and abuse and/or neglect of a minor.  He worked in the Haddonfield Police Department for

Francisco Osoria, a 35 year old Passaic man, pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a city girl over a seven year period.  He is free on $35,000 bail after being charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and child endangerment.  Previously, his bail was $50,000 but it was reduced by state Superior Court Judge Marilyn C. Clark.  He started molesting the girl when she was 10 and began raping her after she turned 15.  The girl, who is now 17, knew him.  She said he raped her about five times