According to HealthSCOUT, women who suffer physical and or sexual abuse as young girls may carry the scars of that trauma into adulthood as a sever oversensitivity to stress. An early history of frequent abuse produces much sharper hormonal and physical responses to mildly stressful events later in life, according to a new study by Georgia researchers. The findings suggest that the brain patterns laid during childhood trauma persist long after the trauma has ceased.
Two weeks after a federal appeals panel reactivated Megan’s Law, a state court ruling is preventing county prosecutors from enforcing penalties against those who improperly spread information they receive about offenders. To guard the privacy and safety of sex offenders, notification information provided to their neighbors and nearby schools has been accompanied by warning that recipients are subject to prosecution if, for instance, they post the information on a telephone pole or shoot at the offender’s house. Some counties specifically warned that recipients would be subject to contempt of court
Andre Epps, a 29 year old Carol Stream man, approached a 13 year old girl on the Great Western Trail near Carol Stream and asked her to help him look for a friend of his. After the girl agreed to help, he led her to a wooded area off the trail and sexually assaulted and beat her. Epps has a long criminal history and was just paroled this month after serving time in the Menard State Correctional Center on a burglary charge. He has been arrested 21 times in his
Detectives have posted sketches of a Brooklyn sex fiend who has preyed on women in Bensonhurst in five separate incidents since May. He may be responsible for a string of similar sexual attacks two years ago. He is described as a Hispanic man 20 to 25 years old, he may have a scar or birthmark near his left eye and his five victims ranged in age from 13 to 54. The first assault was on May 18th at 11 p.m., he walked up behind a 19 year old woman on
Gilbert Garza, a 46-year-old Hempstead man, was arrested and charged with two counts of first degree sodomy for sodomizing a 12 year old boy in the bathroom at the Echo Park Pool Tuesday. He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held at the Nassau County Jail on $500,000 cash bail. After swimming at the pool alone Garza went into the locker room where the boy ran into him in the locker showers about 1:50 p.m. Children age 10 and up are allowed to enter the pool grounds without adult supervision
Daniel Toy, 38, was accused of showing an 8 year old girl pornographic pictures and movies and sexually abusing her over a period of months. A Riverhead jury acquitted the Westhampton man of raping, sodomizing and sexually abusing the girl. According to Newsday, the acquittal came even though he signed four confessions detailing the alleged acts. However, the girl testified that she could not recall many sexual contact with him. She only remembered him showing her the porn images. A psychiatric expert testified it is not unusual for a child
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