Category Archive for : ‘JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER AND OTHERS REGISTRATION’

A French court convicted 62 men and women yesterday in a mass trial and sentenced some of them to as much as 28 years in prison for their roles in a network that raped and prostituted children.  Up to 45 children were raped or sexually assaulted between 1999 and 2002.  The children were between the ages of 6 months and 14 years old.  They were raped and abused by parents, grandparents or acquaintances in a working class neighborhood.  The court sentenced a defendant known only as Philippe V. to 28

Daily News/John Marzulli and Robert F. Moore

Asker Mammedov, a 31 year old former Olympic wrestler from Azerbaijan, forced women from hishomeland to work as prostitutes in Brooklyn. At least one of the sex slaves imported was only 16.He was arraigned in federal court on March 18. He denied the charges and was ordered held withoutbail.

(New York)

Edward Figueroa, a 23 year old ex-convict, was indicted yesterday on charges that he repeatedly had sex with an underage girl while lending her to a brothel for a daily fee.  He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment.  According to the 15-page indictment, he was charged with promoting prostitution; 21 counts of criminal sex acts; 18 counts of rape; and one count each of intimidating and tampering with a witness.  Figueroa allegedly got paid daily for renting the girl to Julie Moya, who is facing charges that she operated a

Barrington Heffenden, a 30 year old Queens man, is facing 25 years in prison for allegedly raping, beating and then enslaving two teenage runaway girls, ages 13 and 15.  Heffenden, of 114-22 158th Street in Jamaica, was arraigned Friday on kidnapping, sexual assault and promoting prostitution charges.  He repeatedly sexually attacked and beat the girls and then forced them for perform various acts with scores of male customers.  He has been denied bail and will next appear in court on January 28.

(New York)

Woodolph Romeo, a 25 year old Long Island man, was charged yesterday with forcing two girls, ages 13 and 14, into prostitution for three years in Queens, repeatedly beating and raping them and forcing one to have his name tattooed on her arm.  Both girls were runaways who Romeo forced to work as prostitutes in an area near Kennedy Airport known as The Track since October 2001.  The girls were picked up by customers and forced to perform sex acts for $40 to $100 on as many as 15 men

New York Post/Alisha Berger

A 13 year old girl walking home alone from school on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn was kidnapped andraped by three young men and a teenage girl in a van. The four youths tried to recruit the girl asa prostitute. They forced her inside the vehicle, demanding she work for them as a hooker. The girlrefused their demands and they drove off before several of them raped and assaulted her in thevehicle. The victim managed to escape and provided cops with details of the crime, leading to thearrests