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Associated Press

Larry Jon Ladwig, 45, was under arrest on charges of kidnapping, sexualmolestation of a child, aggravated assault of a police officer and felony flight after PhoenixPolice Officer Mike Burns had just finished searching a desert area for signs of a 5 year old girland the man who had kidnapped her as she played with her sisters on Christmas Day.  As Burnsdrove down a north Phoenix street, he spotted a truck that matched descriptions of thekidnapper’s vehicle, and a man and a little girl inside.  When the truck made an

newsday.com

Police in Maryland were searching Christmas Eve for a missing 11-year-old girl last seenwearing fuzzy Christmas pajamas, and they have charged Thomas J. Leggs Jr., a 30 year oldregistered child sex offender, in her disappearance.  Leggs, of Salibury, is charged withburglary and with kidnapping Sara H. Foxwell.  A charging document says Leggs was the lastperson seen with Sarah.  A juvenile witness awoke during the night Tuesday and saw Sarahleave the bedroom with Tommy, and said he was wearing blue jeans, an orange jacket and whitesneakers.  Sarah’s aunt says her

New York Times/Sewell Chan

Steven Pappas, a 48 year old Brooklyn man, was charged on Friday withthird-degree burglary, a felony, and second-degree criminal impersonation, a misdemeanor after hetook over a shuttered city-owned parking lot in Lower Manhattan and charged drivers to leave theirvehicles there on at least two days in September.  When police officers confronted Pappas, hefled, but left behind a soda can, from which investigators collected his DNA and identifiedhim.  State records show that Pappas is a registered sex offender.  He was convicted offirst-degree sexual abuse in March 2000 and

New York Times/John Eligon

Calling wrongful convictions a catastrophe both for the injured party and for the criminaljustice system, Justice Richard D. Carruthers, a Manhattan judge of State Supreme Court, issued adecision that officially exonerated William McCaffrey, now 32, of a rape charge that had kept himin prison for about four years.  McCaffrey was arrested in September 2005 on charges that hehad raped Biurny Peguero while they were on their way to a party in Upper Manhattan.  Sherecanted her testimony this year and said she had liked to cover up

Huffingtonpost.com/Carolyn Thompson

2/3/2000 – Theodore Sypnier, a 90 year old Tonawanda man, collapsed as he wasbeing led from court after being sentenced to 10 years in prison. Sypnier pleaded guilty to chargeshe raped and sexually molested a group of young girls. He had pleaded guilty to every count in a15-count indictment, including charges of rape, sodomy and use of a child in a sexual performance.Sypnier allegedly raped and molested the girls, whose ages were between 4 and 10 at the time inBuffalo and Tonawanda, his homes in a suburb to the

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rnrnrnrn2/3/2000 – Theodore Sypnier, a 90 year old Tonawanda man, collapsed as he wasrnbeing led from court after being sentenced to 10 years in prison. Sypnier pleaded guilty to chargesrnhe raped and sexually molested a group of young girls. He had pleaded guilty to every count in arn15-count indictment, including charges of rape, sodomy and use of a child in a sexual performance.rnSypnier allegedly raped and molested the girls, whose ages were between 4 and 10 at the time inrnBuffalo and Tonawanda, his homes in a suburb to the