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A stranger crawled through an open window early Tuesday while an 8-year-old girl, her family and their bulldog slept soundly.  The girl was threatened into silence and stillness for 45 minutes while enduring the stranger’s touches.  When a resident of the house awoke and walked down the hall of the Brandon Township mobile home, it finally ended when the person found a man escaping through the girl’s bedroom window.  This is the third incident in less than a week, it appears the girl is the victim of a serial child

New rules issued by the New York Archdiocese have ordered all prospective employees who will work with kids or the elderly to undergo background checks, according to the New York Post.  Under the broad new sexual misconduct policy of the city’s Roman Catholic archdiocese, parishes must carry out the checks on supervisory personnel, including volunteers, as well as those who work around vulnerable people.

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With several hundred of the archdiocese’s priests, Edward Cardinal Egan laid down the law on sexual abuse and misconduct.  He told them people’s lives are being shattered and the church is suffering and that in no uncertain terms it had to stop.  But one of the country’s top experts in clergy sexual abuse doubts that the cardinal’s policy goes far enough.

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Since Mayor Giuliani proposed a new law threatening jail for staffers who fail to report school related sex offenses, allegations by students and employees have skyrocketed.  A staggering 134 reports of potential sex offenses have been reported to police from May 21 to June 7.  Only 12 sex offense cases were reported over the same time period last year.  An overwhelming majority of the cases involve boys attacking girls, sources said.  Schools Investigator Ed Stancik reports that accusations of sexual misconduct reported to his office shot up 63 percent over

Tito Guzman, 22, of Brooklyn and James Pope, 18, of Manhattan, were charged with promoting prostitution, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment.  They were arrested yesterday on charges of forcing a 12-year-old girl at knifepoint to prostitute herself in the vicinity of Queens Plaza in Long Island City.  Pope held a knife on the girl and told her to earn a minimum of $200 for him before she could stop working.  He was allegedly introduced to the girl through Guzman, known as the girl’s Daddy Pimp.  

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Richard Pagan, a 50 year old acting dean at a Bronx high school, forced a ninth grader into an empty classroom at Theodore Roosevelt High School on May 24 and fondled her breasts and buttocks.  He is charged with sexually abusing the 15 year old female student.  He was charged with first degree sexual abuse and has been fired from his $31,910 job.  He has had three arrests, dating to 1974 on charges of assault, disorderly conduct and drug possession – he was not convicted in those cases.   

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