Category Archive for : ‘HOMELESS SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

Cops released a sketch of a man yesterday they say tried to sodomize two girls in Harlem.  The incident occurred February 27 around 4:30 p.m. when the man accosted the girls, ages 9 and 10, riding in an elevator at a housing project on West 126th Street.  He grabbed the girls, exposed himself and demanded oral sex.  The girls resisted and managed to flee.  The girls did not report the incident until four other victims came forward in three different cases.  Another incident that also occurred on February 27 on

Tommy Lee Sells, a 35 year old drifter, was charged with the murder of 13 year old Kaylene Harris.  While in custody, Sells recounted a 22 year long crime and murder spree spanning several states.  In the early morning hours of December 31, 1999, 10 year old Krystal Surles and her friend Kaylene, were brutally attacked by a knife-wielding Sells, who slashed their throats.  Kaylene died but Krystal walked to a neighbor’s house for help and survived.  She helped police identify the killer despite her injuries.  Sells was arrested two

Associated Press

Two inmates who finished their prison sentences were sent back to jail because they did not havea place to live upon release and could not meet sex offender registry requirements.

Matthew Dix was convicted of rape 17 years ago in Philadelphia. He finished his sentence October3 at the state Correctional Institution at Dallas, but has been behind bars ever since for lack of$5,000 bail. He is the second Pennsylvania inmate in three months to face such a dilemma andcorrections officials say more than 10 sex offenders in the past year

Joseph Cornelius, a 47-year-old homeless man, is accused of killing and sexually mutilating an 11-year-old Pittsburgh boy.  He said he killed him for trying to take his radio, and then he butchered his body to make the crime look like the work of a pedophile.  He told investigators he was drinking beer when Scott tried to take his radio.  He said he became enraged, choked him and when he realized he was dead, hid the body in some bushes, went to a bar, returned and mutilated the body.   Cornelius admitted

Michael A. Scott, a 37-year-old homeless man, is in custody after his arrest on a charge of fondling and 11 year old boy in North Babylon.  He allegedly approached the boy, who was with his mother while she was using a pay phone at Straight Path and Fulton Street out of her view on the other side of the phone.  The boy complained to his mother and she summoned an officer.  Scott is charged with second-degree sexual abuse, an offense involving improper touching of the private parts.  He is also

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