Category Archive for : ‘General’

James Teal, 38, of 553 Larkfield Rd, East Northport, was arrested and charged with sodomizing a 6 year old boy after drugging him with sleeping medication.  He also plotted with Donald Sparling, 50, of 358 E. Manhasset St., Islip, to lure a 13 year old Wisconsin girl to New York to be used as a sex slave.  Police began an investigation of the men two days after Christmas 2002 when they were told about sexually explicit photographs of the boy on Teal’s computer.  Teal acknowledged the photos were his and

The House approved a package of child protection legislation April 10 that would create a national Amber Alert child kidnapping notification network and strengthen the nation’s child pornography laws.  The House voted 400-25 for a compromise crafted by a House-Senate negotiating committee that would institute the national child kidnapping network urged by the family of Elizabeth Smart.

The Smart family will be coming to the White House today to see President Bush sign the new national Amber Alert bill to help find abducted kids.  Elizabeth’s dad, Ed, passionately pleaded for

Jeffrey Bennett, an 18 year old Riverside Drive man, met two girl, 13 & 14 years old, on the Internet and allegedly tried to turn himself into the city’s newest pimp with the help of the Florida girls he recruited to turn tricks.  He traveled with a friend to Lantana, Florida where he first saw them face to face.  He took them back on a Greyhound bus to Manhattan where he hoped to use them as the base for a prostitution business.  Bennett was busted April 8th, thanks to a

A Florida judge has dropped the Diocese of Rockville Centre from a sexual misconduct lawsuit, saying the man who filed it waited too long to accuse church officials of negligence.  The Palm Beach Diocese, which also had been named, was dropped too.  That left only one defendant, a former Long Island priest, the Rev. Matthew Fitzgerald.  The man who had sued the dioceses said they failed to protect him from Fitzgerald, who was transferred in the 1980s to Palm beach, where the suit was filed in June 2002.  The lawsuit

The lawyer for the Rev. Peter Kiare, a 41 year old Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a then 12 year old boy on Father’s Day 2002, suggested the child is lying, as a judge ordered the cleric held on $50,000 bond.  The lawyer, Michael Gaffey, questioned why the boy did not shout out if Kiare actually molested him during a June 16 outing to Rockaway Beach.  Prosecutor Kenneth Appelbaum said Kiare molested the boy at the beach, in a grocery store, at a restaurant, at a bus stop and

A 33 year old man who says he was raped as a teenager by Rev. George Robichaud, a Roman Catholic priest, met him last year, wired with a recording device and seeking an apology.  Let me say something, Robichaud said at the meeting, according to a tape played on the second day of testimony in his trial.  You know I was drinking.  I didn’t mean to do anything to hurt you…I played affectionately; um, I am sorry.  The man, now a trooper, replied, And I forgive you.  Robichaud, 58, who