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ABUSER OF YOUNG GIRLS SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS
Newsday.com/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
In November 2004, Thomas F. Green, 62, of Hawthorne Street in Selden, was accused by a LongIsland schoolgirl who said she was raped for five years by Green, her mom’s boyfriend, only to seehim acquitted in a non-jury trial. The girl ripped the judge saying she didn’t get a fair trialbecause he kept dozing off during her gut-wrenching testimony. A child advocacy group said it fileda complaint against Suffolk County Court Judge Gary Weber, 62, with the state Commission onJudicial Conduct, claiming that he slept while the 15