Category Archive for : ‘General’

Having moved to Shirley in 2005, former Hampton Bays resident Nancy Peters said she was both surprised and disturbed about the number of convicted sex offenders moving into her neck of the woods.  She’s not alone in her concerns about these sex offender clusters, which are popping up throughout Suffolk County according to figures from the New York State Sex Offender Registry.  Wherever there are rentals or low-cost housing, you’re going to find a higher number of sex offenders, said Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law.  If

The state’s top court reinstated Jeffrey Kozlow’s conviction for attempting to send sexually charged e-mails to a 14 year old boy, who turned out to be an undercover cop.  The 5-2 Court of Appeals ruling overturned a lower court’s finding that state law, as written, prohibits only the dissemination of explicit pictures and other images, not words.  The court cited a recent national study that found just 18 percent of Internet sex predators sent sexual pictures to their underage victims.  In reinstating the 2005 conviction of Kozlow, a Manhattan lawyer,

A shocking new study shows rapes among city high school kids have spiked dramatically, with a 34% jump in the number of reported incidents.  The study, based on the latest available statistics and released yesterday by the city Health Department, showed that 7.5% of public high school kids surveyed in 2005 said they had been raped, compared to 5.6% in 2001.  The question about forced sex was first asked in 2001, and it includes any childhood rape that teens may have suffered.  

REPORTED INCIDENTS INVOLVING CITY PUBLIC-SCHOOL KIDS (New

German Zamora, a 24 year old Westbury man, was arrested after he brought his computer to a Best Buy on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown for repairs and the service technician found child pornography on it.  Zamora is charged with possession of a sexual performance of a child.

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In 2005, 7.5 percent of young people in the city’s public schools reported thatthey had been raped at some point, which also matches the national average, but is an increase fromthe city’s rate of 5.6 percent in 2001.

Alex Kelly, 40, Connecticut’s preppy rapist, who spent eight years on the lam in Europe, skiing and partying while avoiding trial, was up for parole in 2005 after serving less than half of his sentence, leaving the victims he brutally attacked as teens outraged.  In 1986, Kelly was 18 and a Darien High School wrestling star from a wealthy family.  He already had been in prison for a series of house burglaries linked to a drug dependency when he raped his 16 year old neighbor, Adrienne Bak, as he drove