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

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

Newsday/Nation Briefs

JoAndrea Peeler, a 37 year old woman in Phoenix who prostituted her 13 year old daughter inexchange for crack, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to spend the rest of herlife on probation. The plea agreement forbids her to have any contact with her daughter, unless thegirl initiates the contact and her therapist approves. Peeler avoided a potential 200 year sentencewhen she pleaded guilty in February to one count of child prostitution and two counts of attemptedchild prostitution.

(Phoenix, Arizona)

New York Post/Joe McGurk and Adam Miller

Federal agents rounded up 29 aliens convicted of sex crimes in a sweep across Westchester Countyyesterday. Most of the convictions were for sex crimes against kids. The arrests occurred inBedford Hills, Post Chester, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Ossining, Mount Vernon, White Plains,Yonkers, New Rochelle and Peekskill. Martin Ficke, special agent in charge of Immigration andCustoms Enforcement in New York said, We knocked on their doors at about 5 a.m. and surprised themin their beds. All the suspects are resident aliens or illegal aliens who had