Category Archive for : ‘LONG ISLAND NEWS’

Joseph Mosomi, a 25 year old Valley Stream man, is charged with felony stalking, a law that went into effect in New York in December 1999.  He was arrested in the alleged stalking of a 10-year-old girl he met in his neighborhood.  He pleaded not guilty and was released from Nassau County jail after posting $2,500 cash bail.  Mosomi, an acquaintance of the girl’s family, began approaching the girl in December when she was playing outside her home.  Although there was no sexual touching, sometimes he hugged the girl and

A 13 year old West Babylon Junior High School student was accosted at Quentin Street and Weber Avenue about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.  A man in a ski mask pulled alongside the teenager and told her to get over here.  When she started walking away the van backed up and the man tried pulling her through the back doors and into the vehicle.  She struggled and got away unharmed.  The police are asking the public to help find the driver of the gray work-type truck, with no rear side windows,

William Elliott, a 60-year-old former West Hempstead Boy Scout leader, was arrested and charged with 20 misdemeanor counts ranging from endangering the welfare of a child to second-degree sex abuse.  He is charged with molesting four boys in his troop during the past 14 months.

They ranged in age from 11 to 16 and were members of a troop in West Hempstead which is comprised of 33 Boy Scouts.  He pleaded not guilty and was released on $12,000 bail and is to appear in court February 6.

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Rene Escobar, a 20-year-old Westbury man, was arrested and charged with rape and kidnapping onSaturday. He was being held in Nassau County jail with no bail set on the kidnapping charges,meaning he cannot be released at least until after a court hearing Thursday. His relatives say itis a Long Island story of Romeo and Juliet. She and her relatives say it was a rape and akidnapping and he belongs in jail. Escobar is 20 and the girl is only 12. They had a yearlongsexual relationship according to his relatives. They

A Coram man was convicted in Suffolk County Court of first degree rape, first degree sexual abuse and three counts of first degree sodomy of his daughter more than 11 years ago.  Now he may be freed soon in the wake of a federal appellate court’s decision that his defense was sabotaged by an incompetent attorney.  The man is not named because it would identify his daughter.  He was sentenced to 12 1/2 to 25 years in prison in 1989.  According to Newsday, the conviction stemmed from two alleged attacks,

Greg Whelan, 49, was sentenced to serve 6 months in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility and 5 years on probation.  The victim’s parents denounced the sentence as dangerously lenient.  Whelan pleaded guilty last month to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.  He faced a maximum sentence of 4 to 7 years in prison.  He apologized for the damage he did and promised it would never happen again.  Whelan grabbed the crotch of a young girl in a King Kullen supermarket