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In a 1996 complaint, a Farmingdale family accused the Rev. Brian Brinker, 47, of inappropriately touching their 14 year old son on an airplane trip to San Francisco.  Now Bishop William Murphy has told the family that the priest should be allowed to return to active work.  He said he saw no reason why this man should not continue with his duties as a parish priest, said Linda Moraitis, the teenager’s mother.  I was completely outraged.  I said, ‘Why is he a priest at all?’  Matthew Moraitis said Brinker, while

New York Post/Joseph Mollica and Lukas I. Alpert

Thirty-nine perverts were nabbed in New Jersey in a kiddie-porn sting for passing around a videofile on the Internet showing a man raping a 5 year old girl. Acting on a tip from authorities inWyoming, the suspects were arrested over the past two days by the State Police. The suspects rangein age from 14 to 61, with 10 younger than 18. All are charged with second degree possession anddistribution of child pornography. The video, which depicts a man in Toccoa, Georgia, raping a

Kevin White, the 34 year old man accused of being the vicious East Side rapist, has a staggering 27 arrests on his rap sheet, but has never spent more than six months behind bars.  He was convicted 25 times for crimes ranging from fare-beating to peddling pot to weapons possession from October 1989 to November 2002.  He was also arrested in the alleged rape of a Brooklyn call girl in 1998, but officials did not know the disposition of that case.  Another lesser charge was dismissed too. In the other

In a 1996 complaint, a Farmingdale family accused the Rev. Brian Brinker, 47, of inappropriately touching their 14 year old son on an airplane trip to San Francisco.  Now Bishop William Murphy has told the family that the priest should be allowed to return to active work.  He said he saw no reason why this man should not continue with his duties as a parish priest, said Linda Moraitis, the teenager’s mother.  I was completely outraged.  I said, ‘Why is he a priest at all?’  Matthew Moraitis said Brinker, while

Newsday/Jennifer Smith

If a bill proposing the use of GPS monitoring systems passes the county legislature today,some convicted sex offenders in Suffolk County could wind up wearing one. The bill would authorizethe county’s probation department to set up a pilot program, in conjunction with the courts,requiring selected high-risk sex offenders to wear GPS equipment as a condition of their probation.The offenders’ movements would be tracked so they stay away from areas prohibited by theirprobation, such as schools. Of the more than 800 registered sex offenders in Suffolk County, onlythose under the supervision

In a report on the abuse crisis to be published later this week, Bishop William Murphy discloses that eight Long Island priests accused of sexually abusing minors have been defrocked by the Vatican, three priests were ordered to face church trials and two others were cleared.  In a three page letter, Murphy said 23 priests had credible abuse allegations made against them.  The accusations against nine of the priests were disposed of by the Diocese of Rockville Centre, while the cases against 14 others were sent to the Vatican’s Congregation