Category Archive for : ‘LONG ISLAND NEWS’

Daniel Toy, 38, was accused of showing an 8 year old girl pornographic pictures and movies and sexually abusing her over a period of months.  A Riverhead jury acquitted the Westhampton man of raping, sodomizing and sexually abusing the girl.  According to Newsday, the acquittal came even though he signed four confessions detailing the alleged acts.  However, the girl testified that she could not recall many sexual contact with him.  She only remembered him showing her the porn images.  A psychiatric expert testified it is not unusual for a child

Antonio Centeri, a 44-year-old Westhampton Beach special education teacher, was arrested on charges he arranged to have sex with who he thought was a 13 year old girl he had met in an America Online chat room.  Instead of talking to a teen, Centeri was actually talking to Suffolk Det. Rory Forrestal of the Computer Crime Section.  He allegedly arranged to meet the supposed teen at a Pathmark parking lot off the Montauk Highway in Shirley for the purpose of having sex and was arrested after police placed a young

Christopher Strain, 38, a Westhampton Beach high school science teacher, was acquitted of second-degree sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  He had lost his job after a 12 year old girl, who was visiting his home with her family, accused him of touching her inappropriately.  

(Westhampton, New York)

Glen Edwards, 28, a Sag Harbor taxi driver, has been charged with raping a 14 year old girl on April 26th, while he was on the job.  The girl was an acquaintance, not a customer.  He was arrested and charged with one count of first-degree rape and one count of third-degree rape, felonies.  He was arraigned and has been released on $5,000 bail.  If he is indicted and convicted, he could face up to 25 years in prison.

Peter Giordano, 37, pleaded guilty to federal charges that he masterminded an international Internet kiddie-porn ring that he ran out of his parent’s house.  He used the online name HarryMudd, to barter in porn portfolios with more than 100 people worldwide.  He faces up to 11 1/2 years in prison when he is sentenced on August 3rd.

(New York)

Lawrence Bargelini, 41, of Brentwood, was arrested and charged with one count of promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, punishable by up to 7 years in prison.  He is being held in the county jail in lieu of $50,000 bail after pleading not guilty.  He was allegedly offering other users access to an inventory of more than 200 pornography files on his computer.

(New York)