Category Archive for : ‘General’

Newsday/Emily Ngo and Denise M. Bonilla 11/26/13 The New York State Sex Offender Registration Act, enacted in 1996, requires that anyone onparole, probation or incarcerated for a sex offense register with the Division of Criminal JusticeServices. The sentencing court generally determines whether an offender’s risk of committing anothersex crime is Level 1, low; Level 2, moderate; or Level 3, high.  Offenders may also bedesignated as sexual predator, sexually violent offender or predicate sex offender.  Offenderscan file a petition to the court to modify their assigned risk level. – Level 1 offenders

wftv.com 12/3/13 Donald Smith, a 57 year old convicted sex offender, has been charged with first-degreemurder, kidnapping and sexual battery in the raping and killing of 8 year old Cherish Perrywinkleof Jacksonville.  The trial is set to being the week of May 12.  Cherish was lured awayfrom her mother in June with promises of buying her clothes with a gift card at Walmart.  Shewas found the next morning dumped in a wooded area near a church.  Smith had a lengthy rapsheet of convictions for sex crimes against children and had

Huffington Post/Sebastian Murdock 11/5/13 Anthony Brinkman, a 32 year old Missouri man, is accused of planning for his 11-year-olddaughter to be beaten and raped.  He allegedly placed an ad online looking for someone to beatand rape his daughter while he watched.  An undercover officer responded to the request andagreed to meet the suspect at a predetermined location.  Brinkman then took his daughter 80miles away from their home in Cuba, Mo. to St. Louis.  He thought he was meeting a womaninterested in sexually assaulting the girl with sex toys.  When he

Newsday/Chau Lam 11/6/13 Aaron Kozlowski, a 31 year old gym teacher, was accused by students of watching pornographyin his office while fondling himself.  One of the four students recanted, and two others haverefused to cooperate with authorities.  With no evidence to corroborate the boys’ stories, thecase against the North Shore Middle School gym teacher has collapsed.  Nassau District CourtJudge Valerie Alexander threw out four child endangerment charges, including the one based onallegations made by the fourth boy, who still says the story is true.  The case began early this year,

rnHuffington Post/rn 11/7/13rn Connie McCallister, a 26 year old Wisconsin woman who went missing more than nine years ago,rnhas been found living in Mexico with her three children.  McCallister, who vanished in Augustrn2004 at age 16, said she was drugged and taken to Mexico against her will by her then-boyfriend whornwas 22.  He is now wanted on sexual assault charges against a different alleged victim. rnMcCallister and the boyfriend went to a party in Milwaukee and she called her sister and said, ‘Hernwon’t bring me back,’ and that’s the last anyone

Post-Gazette.com/Jane Elizabeth Zemel and Steve Twedt 10/31/1999 Children are often taught in school to look out for adults who might hurt them.  Butsometimes, the grown-ups in their own classrooms are the ones who could do the most harm. Sexual misconduct by educators is a volatile, sensitive subject that’s been whispered about inschool hallways and behind closed office doors as long as there have been schools.  But a lackof public acknowledgment has helped the problem to spread and the bad teachers to circulate.  – Joseph Doherty, an Avonworth School District teacher, was cleared