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John Becerra, 45, pleaded guilty in February 1996 to four counts of sexual abuse and two count of endangering the welfare of a minor for incidents during 1993 and 1994 in Bellport that involved several children.  He was sentenced to six months in jail and five months probation.  After serving four months, he was released with special conditions for further rehabilitative treatment.  He lived in Farmingville for 15 months before his neighbors learned of his past.  There were organized demonstrations in front of his house, which was across the street

Dennis Hargett, a 38-year-old veteran firefighter was charged with sexually abusing his 10-year-old daughter repeatedly over the past four years.  His daughter complained of the attacks to an aunt on Monday night and she called police.  Hargett, who lives on Hegeman Ave. in Brooklyn and is a member of Engine Co. 235 in Brooklyn, was taken into custody yesterday at the firehouse at Monroe Street and Nostrand Ave.  Hargett was suspended without pay after his arrest, pending further investigation according to a statement from the Fire Department.  The attacks occurred

AP Wire

A 12 year old girl has been charged with sexually abusing a 9 year old boy four times over a twomonth period. The incidents occurred in the boy’s bedroom during December and January and involvedsexual intercourse and genital fondling. The girl has been charged with first degree rape andsexual assault charges even though no force was involved because of the boy’s age.

(Watertown, New York)

Michael Dorris, a 52 year old prize winning author, killed himself using the Heaven’s Gate cult suicide recipe.  Dorris was being investigated for child sex abuse.  He was the first unmarried American man to legally adopt three children.  He also fathered three more children after marrying.  His estranged wife, Erdrich, would not discuss the allegations.  The couple was locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.

(New Hampshire)

Connie Marie Behymer, a 34 year old homeless woman, pleaded not guilty to charges that she brought her two daughters, ages 6 and 9 at the time, to Las Vegas and forced them into prostitution.  She is fighting the federal charges relating to her children.  She was arrested in Oklahoma City and transported here this week.  The children are staying with a relative.  FBI agents were told by the girl that they were forced to perform oral and straight sex and at least one of them was sodomized.  Medical reports

The Pam Lychner Sexual Offender Tracking and Identification Act, passed byCongress in 1996, provides for a national database to track sex offenders.  The Pam LychnerAct shores up the provisions of the Jacob Wetterling Act, which requires state law enforcement totransmit sex offender data and fingerprints to the FBI, by establishing at the FBI a nationaldatabase of released sex offenders to track their whereabouts and movement.  Provisionsmandate persons convicted of sexual offenses in states that do not have a minimally sufficientregistration program to register with the FBI a current address, fingerprints,