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Real Estate Agents are trying to figure out if they are obligated to tell prospective home buyers that a convicted sex offender lives in the neighborhood.  If they do reveal this, agents are worried that the home will never be sold and/or that real estate prices will drop.  On the other hand, they are concerned about liability if they fail to disclose such information.  Laws in California, Alaska and Virginia require real estate agents to advise home buyers, in writing, about local law enforcement agencies, databases, etc. that will reveal

William Musella, a 41-year-old door-to-door pill salesman, was arrested Wednesday and charged with second-degree sexual abuse for allegedly fondling a 12 year old girl in Dix Hills in February.  He works for a Connecticut-based company and tried to sell his line of products to the girls family but the family did not buy anything.  Musella came back when the daughter was home alone under the guise of selling pills and said he had to take her measurements using the ploy to fondle her.  Police ask that anyone with information on

Fifty men from the city’s religious, professional and business establishments were found by CBS Radio News who say they were victims of a pedophile ring in Cornwall, Ontario.  The men claim they were abused by about 20 people.  The ring has been preying on boys for more than 40 years.  This ring includes priests, lawyers, parole and police officers, teachers and business executives.  The ring members all had one thing in common – the church.  Documents show a local bishop agreed to an arrangement whereby a victim was paid $32,000

George Philips, 34, a Bayside real estate broker is a sexual predator who preyed on young women and girls in a series of kidnappings, rapes and sexual assaults, charged a prosecutor yesterday.  Armed with a starter’s pistol and wearing a black ski mask, he attacked five times in eastern Queens in 1996 and 1997.  One girl was just 15 years old.  While walking alone in the Floral Park, Bellerose and Whitestone areas, young women would be forced by Philips into his black Acura, he raped two of them, Assistant District

Contrary to popular impressions, most of the country’s oldest prisoners aren’t multiple murderers serving life sentences for heinous crimes committed in their youth.  Often, the very oldest are sex offenders imprisoned relatively recently and considered too dangerous to parole.  More than a quarter of Ohio’s older prisoners are sex offenders.  In Wisconsin, the total runs to 30%.  The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics found that released rapists were more than ten times as likely as ex-cons charged with other crimes to be rearrested for rape, according to a 1997 study.

After 13 years, DNA evidence convicted a man of raping and murdering an 11 year old Alison Parrott.  The semen in her body matched with 41 year old Francis Roy.  He faces a life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years.