Category Archive for : ‘General’

Two weeks after implementing a mapping system to track sex offenders, Town of Babylon officials said yesterday they had identified seven offenders living too close to places where children congregate and 17 in illegal housing.  The seven were told to leave their residences by the town’s Quality of Life Task Force because they were violating a county residency restriction law.  The law, passed in June, prohibits registered sex offenders from living within a quarter-mile of schools, parks, playgrounds or licensed child care centers.  One offender evicted was Clarence Carter, a

The Suffolk Legislature yesterday began addressing heightened concerns in some communities about sex offenders by unanimously adopting two bills and introducing legislation that would expand notification requirements when an offender moves into a neighborhood.  Lawmakers approved a resolution that would require the Suffolk probation department to tell victims and /or their legal guardians when a registered sex offender absconds from supervision.  The lawmakers also approved a measure to prohibit county departments and contractors from participating in the placement of more than one offender in a dwelling.  It seeks to reduce

New York’s highest court ruled yesterday that the state, acting under an order from Governor George Pataki, wrongly confined convicted sex offenders in psychiatric facilities after their prison sentences ended.  In a 7-0 decision, the court of appeals reversed a midlevel court decision allowing 12 men to be held without hearings as psychiatric patients and ordered their cases back to a lower court.  The men are still confined.

(Albany, New York)

FBI Press Release

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Ronald Nelson, a 58 year old paint sales representative from Montgomery, Alabama, was arrestedrnNovember 19, 2006, at Morrow, Georgia, on federal charges related to traveling interstate with thernintent to have sex with a minor child. Nelson began communicating via the internet with what hernthought was the mother of a ten year old child. The mother was actually a law enforcement officerrnassigned to the FBI’s Safe Child Task Force. Nelson will appear today before a US Magistrate Judgernin Atlanta regarding these charges.

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Timothy Lee Prunick, a 38 year old man

Delano Reynolds, a 31 year old UPS driver who repeatedly bedded a 13 year old girl he had met while delivering a package to her Brooklyn apartment, got caught on Halloween by the girl’s grandma.  Reynolds is charged with multiple counts of rape, sexual misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child after allegedly pursuing the girl for weeks following an August delivery to her home.  He was freed on $20,000 bail on November 4.

(New York)

Thomas J. Kowalczyk, a 24 year old elementary school custodian at Clear Stream Avenue School in Valley Stream, was arrested yesterday on charges that he tried to solicit sex from a 14 year old Suffolk County boy over the Internet.  He has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.  Anyone with information on the case can call 631-852-6000.

(New York)