Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

A Post investigation found that more than a thousand sex fiends, convicted rapists, child molesters and sexual deviants likely to repeat their crimes, live in the five boroughs, but only half are listed on a state-run Web site that is supposed to keep tabs on their whereabouts.  The Web site http://criminaljustic.state.ny.us/nsor/ lists names, addresses, crimes and photos of 614 Level 3, the highest risk offenders.  According to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, the agency that runs the online registry, 1,236 Level 3 offenders actually live here as of

A group of cyber-vigilantes has turned the tables on sexual predators who use the Internet to lure underage victims.  The operators of the Web site perverted-justice.com pose as kids on the Internet, then expose any men who attempt to engage in online sexual activity.  They pretend to be young girls or boys, and when adult men initiate inappropriate conversations with them, they bait them along, soliciting e-mail pictures and phone numbers and keeping transcripts of their entire online conversations.  Then they post the information on their Web site – transcript,

Governor George E. Pataki, saying he hopes to strengthen Megan’s Law, has proposed legislation that would put the names of all sex offenders on the Internet and crack down on those who fail to tell law enforcement authorities where they live.  Currently the state’s online registry lists information only about those offenders who are considered most likely to commit another sex crime.  The law would post onto the site information about sex offenders the state considers at the moderate and low risk level of offending again.  The governor has proposed

About a month after Nancy Treccagnoli, a new tenant who moved into the other half of a two family home in Hauppauge, she learned that the man who shares the yard, pool and driveway is a convicted Level Three sex offender.  A neighbor had found his picture on the state’s registry of convicted sex offenders.  Level Three offenders are the most serious of the three classifications imposed by a judge.  Treccagnoli found the ages of the victims involved in the offender’s first degree sexual abuse convictions were close to those

New York Post/Patrick Gallahue

A Post investigation reveals that dozens of child molesters convicted of the most heinous crimeson the youngest of victims are living within blocks of elementary and middle schools all overBrooklyn. Several convicted offenders live in a halfway house only three blocks from an elementaryschool and two convicted sex offenders now live within a couple of blocks of PS 329 in ConeyIsland. The revelations emerged less than a month after parents in Sheepshead Bay were shocked bythe discovery that Charles Weaver, 47, was living across the street from

A state appeals court has ruled that sex offenders who show that they can adhere to restrictions that would substantially reduce the risk of their committing further offenses can be authorized for release.  The ruling stems from a suit filed by a 68 year old man who was involuntarily committed to further custody after completing two prison terms for molesting young boys.  Although the decision, which was issued last week, did not order the man’s release, it did return the case to trial court.

(Trenton, New Jersey)