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Charles Bodenburg, 20, molested, beat and smothered 3 year old Kayla Zachman to death while baby-sitting her and her infant brother.  Bodenburg was the boyfriend of Kayla’s mother.  Kayla’s grandmother said she could track Kayla’s fear of Bodenburg back around Memorial Day weekend, when he started baby-sitting regularly since the mother had started working.  The mother said, She cried.  She didn’t want me to leave her with him.

Bodenburg’s initial story was that his girlfriend’s young daughter died from drinking too much amaretto.  The version of events he gave later

Marc F. Gunning, 38, who was indicted on 28 counts of sex crimes, including 21 counts of sodomy, committed suicide in the Riverhead jail in May 2000.  Gunning has easily gained the trust and adoration of his neighbors in Coram soon after he rented a room from a family in February 1999.  He was trusted to babysit children and served as a big brother to local youths.   None of their parents know that, in 1995, he was convicted of third degree sexual abuse or that he would strike again.  He

A Manhattan federal appeals court overturned an award of $900,000 to Steven Arnold, a convicted rapist who said correction officers at the Nassau County jail failed to protect him from a severe beating by other inmates.  The 1999 award was overturned by a three-judge panel of the Second US Circuit of Appeals.  A new trial was ordered on the grounds that the US District Court judge hearing the case, Frederic Block, had improperly allowed the jury to determine the meaning of the working of state law on jail staffing rather

Valley of the Kings Church patriarch David Earl King, 66, and Nathan Paul King, 32, believed to be King’s adopted son, were indicted in April on charges of sexual battery, conspiracy to commit sexual battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.  The group’s self-appointed pastor was arrested in March, accused of molesting a 14 year old boy.  The boy’s parents claim the Kings sexually abused their son and threatened to castrate him if he spoke of it.  The indictment includes a second possible victim, identified as an 11

Marc F. Gunning, 38, who was indicted on 28 counts of sex crimes, including 21 counts of sodomy, committed suicide in the Riverhead jail in May 2000.  Gunning has easily gained the trust and adoration of his neighbors in Coram soon after he rented a room from a family in February 1999.  He was trusted to babysit children and served as a big brother to local youths.   None of their parents know that, in 1995, he was convicted of third degree sexual abuse or that he would strike again.  He

New York Post/Ed Robinson and Erika Martinez

In the first incident, a 13-year-old student at JHS 185 in Flushing claims she was grabbed andsexually abused at 2:30 pm after school let out. Another 13-year-old student was arrested yesterdayand charged with abusing a female classmate Monday in a school stairwell.

In a second incident, an 11-year-old girl at PS 197 in East Harlem was fondled in a first floorhallway. A 10-year-old boy was arrested and charged with sexually abusing her.

In a third incident, a 12 year old girl told school official on Monday