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Sex Offenders and the Internet  

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Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Transcript

LUCKY SEVERSON: You might find Karen Menake staring through the screen door of her comfortableLong Island home as if she’s expecting trouble. Although this hardly seems like a dangerousneighborhood.

KAREN MANAKE: In May, we found out that there was a sex offender living on our block. And weweren’t informed by the police.

SEVERSON: The sex offender grew up in this neighborhood, and moved back in with his mom afterserving time in jail. Like many neighbors here, Karen Manake was worried about her twodaughters.

MS. MANAKE: And I was really

According to Special Schools Investigator Ed Stancik, administrators at two city schools failed to call police after several girls said they were sexually abused because the officials wanted to protect their reputations or were too busy.  In one case, during an attack in June at IS 278, several sixth and seventh grade girls were thrown into sprinklers at a nearby park and allegedly stripped and molested by several boy students.  The girls reported the attacks to school officials but little was done.  Officials even refused to report the attacks after

New York Post/Rocco Parascandola

A 14 and 16 year olds from Morris HS said they were flashed by a man on their way to schoolyesterday in the Bronx. They said a man in a four-door sedan exposed himself to them at East 167thStreet and Boston Post Road. The girls told police the man resembles a suspect in a NYPD sketch ofa dark-skinned man in his late 20s who accosted three St. Thomas Aquinas students on September 11thand then took off in a blue minivan. He stuck his head underneath the skirt

Anthony Consolazio, a 32-year-old Ridge man, has been arrested for the alleged sodomy of a 15-year-old boy after meeting him through the Internet.  He has been charged with two counts of third degree sodomy and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.  Consolazio began an Internet relationship with the boy through email and chat room conversations using the names Tone and Allah on the computer.  The teenager wanted to end contact with him after a second meeting but he persisted in contacting the teen.  Detectives are looking for

According to Dr. Larry K. Brown and associates, from Rhode Island Hospital, in Providence, adolescents with a history of sexual abuse are significantly more likely than their counterparts to engage in sexual behavior that puts them at risk for HIV infection.  Dr. Brown’s group assessed 116 sexually active adolescents in intensive psychiatric treatment, of whom 61 had a history of sexual abuse.  

(Westport, Connecticut)