Category Archive for : ‘General’

Daily News/Oren Yaniv and Michael White

A 13 year old girl escaped the clutches of a pervert who impersonated a cop to lure her into hiscar in Queens yesterday. The girl was able to flee the 8 a.m. attack in Corona after a goodSamaritan approached the parked Lincoln Town Care, distracting the driver. The girl, who was on herway to Intermediate School 61, was standing in the street, giving him directions, when she wasalmost hit by a passing vehicle. He takes advantage of that and tells her, You are going to

Newsday

When Andrew McDaniels, a convicted sex offender, was interviewed by a parole office inSeptember, he faced something new. The parole officer had a laptop computer receiving data fromskin sensors on McDaniels. When the parole officer noticed a blip, he asked more pointed questions.Soon, McDaniels acknowledged he had been around boys near upstate Watkins Glen. The parolee wasaccused of violating a condition of his release that requires him to stay away from children and heremains in Schuyler County Jail until a hearing this week. New York is the latest state to

Joseph John Palassio, a 65 year old man from Kingston, Ontario, Canada, was sentenced today by US District Judge J. Owen Forrester on charges of using the internet to attempt to entice a child to engage in sexual activity and traveling across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity with a 10 year old girl.  he was sentenced to 13 years in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release.  He was convicted of these charges on August 9, 2006.  The defendant expressed his desire

Keith Turner, 17, was sentenced yesterday to 90 years in prison for an hours long attack on a boy who was beaten, kicked, stomped, burned and sodomized with the plastic pole of a patio umbrella.  He was the second teen convicted of aggravated sexual assault in the April attack on the 17 year old victim.  David Henry Tuck, 18, was sentenced to life in prison on November 16.

(Houston, Texas)

Stateline.org/Kavan Peterson

A major push to crack down on sex offenders in recent years may be backfiring in states whereprogressively strict housing rules are coming under court challenge and making it harder for lawenforcement to track those convicted of rape, child molesting and similar crimes. Laws in at leasta half dozen states, including California, Georgia and Iowa, barring sex offenders from living nearschools and parks are being legally challenged by ex-offenders who claim the lawsunconstitutionally penalize them after they have already served their time. Such laws also areraising alarms among law

Rabbi Joel Kolko, a 60 year old whose attacks on young boys were ignored by the officials of Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Temimah because he was cleared by a rabbinical court.  It was charged yesterday that the Brooklyn yeshiva covered up the rabbi’s long history of child molestation and threatened parents and children who tried to end the abuse.  The rabbi was arraigned yesterday on new sex abuse charges.  They involved a 6 year old and a 31 year old, who says he was abused as a boy and again when