Category Archive for : ‘General’

Newsday/Matthew Chayes and Sophia Chang

Heather Kennedy, a 25 year old well-liked teacher and track coach at a Wantagh school,stands accused of statutory rape after police say she had sex with a teenage student.  Kennedyhas taught math at Wantagh High School for three years and had a good reputation with students andadministrators alike.  She was arrested in March 2008 and charged with endangering the welfareof a child and with having sex with the 16 year old in his car after his father contacted policebecause the boy told him of the

Newsday/Bart Jones

Robert Sammarco recalls how the priest would invite him to the beach in Mastic-Shirley, toNew York City to see Fiddler on the Roof, and even on a weeklong trip to Puerto Rico.  Then,back at the rectory in East Meadow after some outings, the priest, Kenneth Hasselbach, now 68,would sexually abuse Sammarco, sometimes in the shower, other times while wrestling, Sammarcosaid.  The trauma Sammarco said he experienced as a teenager in the 1960s is resurfacing asHasselbach faces new allegation, this time involving child pornography.  Last monthHasselbach, of Hollywood, Fla.,

FBI

Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Matt J. Whitworth,announced that four men were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in four separate cases, oncharges related to the sex trafficking of children.  The indictments are the result ofOperation Guardian Angel, a unique undercover law enforcement investigation targeting the demandfor child prostitutes in the Kansas City area.  Shane Allan Childers, 32, of Olathe, Kan.,Christopher M. Cockrell, 33, of Armory, Miss., Steven C. Albers, 40, of Kansas City, Mo., andRichard J. Oflyng, 31, of Ottawa, Kan., were

FBI

Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Matt J. Whitworth,announced that four men were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in four separate cases, oncharges related to the sex trafficking of children.  The indictments are the result ofOperation Guardian Angel, a unique undercover law enforcement investigation targeting the demandfor child prostitutes in the Kansas City area.  Shane Allan Childers, 32, of Olathe, Kan.,Christopher M. Cockrell, 33, of Armory, Miss., Steven C. Albers, 40, of Kansas City, Mo., andRichard J. Oflyng, 31, of Ottawa, Kan., were

New York Post

A Hasidic rabbi’s ex-wife testified yesterday she knew he had been sexuallyabusing their daughter for years but was too afraid to stop it.  Faige Weingarten said herdaughter, now 27, came to her at age 9 looking very shocked and very lost and told her she’dbeen molested by her father, Israel Weingarten, 59.  She said she awoke to sound of crying inanother bedroom.  I came in and I saw my ex-husband with my daughter in one bed.  I gota terrible shock, she said.  Mrs. Weingarten, a mother of eight,

Daily News/Alison Gendar and Simone Weichselbaum

Just before last Thanksgiving, a 13 year old Brooklyn girl told her parents she had beenmolested.  They didn’t go to police.  Her dad went straight to their rabbi.  Thereligious leader told them to go to another rabbi for guidance.  The frantic couple spoke totwo more rabbis before taking their advice: talk to cops.  The family met privately with adetective and a prosecutor, and authorities charged a 59 year old neighbor, Arye Ickovits, withsexually abusing the young teen after luring her into his bedroom.  Sexual