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Nathaniel Richardson, a 52 year old Roosevelt man, was previously convicted of attempted sodomyand is now charged with another sex offense for repeatedly touching a 16 year old girl on herbehind. Richardson, who lives at 24 Ronald Place, knew the Hempstead girl’s family for years andwould do favors for them, such as driving the teenager to school. The unwanted touching had beengoing on for about a month when the girl finally told a classmate. Richardson served just over 2months for a 5 month attempted sodomy conviction in 1996, but the

Thomas Gibbons, a tenured special-ed teacher at William Taft HS in the Bronx, was accused of having sex with a student for years, starting when the girl was 15.  He admitted it on tape in 1995 but he is still teaching in a New York City public school.  In 1996, Gibbons was tried before arbitrator Margaret Leibowitz, the tapes in which he talks about sex with the girl were the smoking gun.  But Leibowitz, found the evidence insufficient and did nothing.  He now teaches at John F. Kennedy HS in

Erik Williams, 21, is charged with trying to rape a woman who castrated him during the alleged attack.  He allegedly tried to force a 42 year old woman to perform a sex act on him and while they struggled, the woman bit off his testicles.  She turned over the testicles to officers at police headquarters.  William later arrived at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center with injuries matching the woman’s description.  The testicles could not be reattached.  He is listed in stable condition.

(Chicago, Illinois)

Patrick Sykes, 29, was sentenced to 120 years for the brutal 1997 attack on a 9-year-old girl that left her blind and nearly paralyzed after he poured roach killer down her throat.  The girl, who is now 14, is unable to see or speak but testified at trial by nodding her head and lifting her eyebrows to answer questions.  Sykes lived in a downstairs apartment from the girl and lured her in with an offer of a banana.  After the attack he scrawled gang signs with a pen on the

Kurt Rasmussen, a 48-year-old auto body repairman, was arrested on charges of first-degree sodomy, third degree sexual abuse, three counts of unlawful dealing with a child and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.  He would repair bicycles for neighborhood children and let them sit on his motorcycle.  But in the past year he had developed relationships with several children that no one knew about.  He would by them alcohol and cigarettes and then eventually lured them into his home to watch pornographic videos.  The charges stem from

Associated Press

Wayne DuMond, a 51-year-old castrated rapist on parole, is charged with first-degree murder inthe death of a Missouri woman and prosecutors may seek the death penalty. Carol Sheilds, 39, ofParkville, Mo., was found suffocated in a friend’s apartment about 10 miles from DuMond’s home, towhich he had moved seven weeks earlier. DNA samples taken from beneath her fingernails connectedDuMond to the crime. His genetic profile was in a national database because of his 1984 convictionin Forrester City, Arkansas for raping a 17 year old. He was castrated by masked