A 14 year old boy was arrested after a 16 year old girl said she was gang-groped by boys at an indoor public pool in Harlem. The boy claims he is innocent and that the girl asked to be dunked. During the dunking he claims her bikini top came off. She said the boys fondled her breasts, buttocks and genitals. He says he was not part of the dunking or groping, he was trying to help her. The other boys fled.
A federal appeals court ruled that Mark Poehlman was entrapped by the task force involving FBI, Navy and county officials. The conviction of the Florida man was overturned. He was arrested walking into a hotel room on the promise of having sex with three underage girls as a result of a police sting. This ruling, experts say, will further define how such law enforcement operations can be handled and perhaps give those looking to engaging in child pornography tips on how to avoid getting caught.
At a ceremony at the state office building in Hauppauge last week, Laura Ahearn, the founder and executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law, was named one of the New York State Senate Women of Distinction. She is one of 72 women in New York to be honored in the three-year-old program run by the state government’s upper house. Senator James Lack (R-East Northport) had nominated her for the award and she was chosen as a winner by a panel of staffers from several state senators’ offices. The Stony Brook
Thousands of girls were snatched from their homes by Sierra Leone’s feared Revolutionary United Front rebels and turned into sex slaves during eight years of civil war. They were forced to carry heavy loads for the rebels by day and raped nearly every night. According to the Associated Press, exact figures are not available, but the New York-based Human Rights Watch says the raping of women and children during the war was systematic, organized and widespread – part of a rebel campaign of terror that also included maiming and mutilating
Major Juan Garcia, 40, a respected police commander, may have solicited sex from an undercover police office. Prosecutors are weighing whether to charge him with soliciting sex during a weekend sting. The 18-year veteran of the Miami Police Department has been reassigned to desk duty pending an investigation by the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office.
Antonio Centeri, a 44-year-old Westhampton Beach special education teacher, was arrested on charges he arranged to have sex with who he thought was a 13 year old girl he had met in an America Online chat room. Instead of talking to a teen, Centeri was actually talking to Suffolk Det. Rory Forrestal of the Computer Crime Section. He allegedly arranged to meet the supposed teen at a Pathmark parking lot off the Montauk Highway in Shirley for the purpose of having sex and was arrested after police placed a young