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Benjamin Simmons, a 42 year old Uniondale man awaiting trial on rape charges, tried to have a key witness killed, believing doing so would free him from jail.  He detailed his plans to an undercover detective who posed as a hit man, saying he wanted the mother of his victim, who was his live-in girlfriend, murdered.  Simmons was charged yesterday with second-degree criminal solicitation, a felony punishable by up to 7 years in prison.  He has been incarcerated in Nassau County jail in East Meadow since he was indicted for

A child advocacy group found that states across the country have lost track of tens of thousands of rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders who are supposed to be registered in Megan’s Law databases, according to a startling new survey.  After an Associated Press investigation that revealed California had lost track of a least 33,000 sex offenders, Parents for Megan’s Law contacted all 50 states to ask about the accuracy of their registries.  What was found was that states on average were unable to account for 24 percent of

In the unlikely event that Richard Ausley gets out of prison anytime soon, it’s even more unlikely he will come to Roanoke.  Ausley is a sex offender whose crimes, which include keeping one of his victims buried in a wooden box for more than a week near his Hampton Roads home 30 years ago, made him the poster boy for a proposal to keep dangerous molesters in custody beyond their parole dates.  Ausley, who reportedly befriended a Roanoke couple impressed with his prison artwork, has expressed an interest in moving

The Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, will pay an $800,000 settlement to 10 former parishioners who claim they were sexually abused by five Catholic priests.  None of the priests admitted wrongdoing as part of the settlement.  The settlement resolved claims against Monsignor Michael Cashman of Woodbridge, once a spiritual adviser to Governor Jim McGreevey, and the Rev. John M. Banko of Milford, who was convicted of sexually abusing an 11 year old altar boy.  The diocese also settled claims against Michael Santillo, a former Perth Amboy priest who was convicted

New York Post

Brian Burke, a 37 year old Westchester architect, posing as a 17 year old, had a series ofsexually explicit Internet chats with a 12 year old girl, then enticed her to meet him and sexuallyabused her in his car. The White Plains man was arraigned in county court on charges of sendingindecent material to a child, sexual abuse and endangering a child. The indictment alleges he andthe girl had a series of explicit Internet communications last summer, followed by online chats andphone calls in which he asked her

The five young men whose convictions in the Central Park jogger case were overturned probably participated in the attack, a Police Department report concludes.  The most likely scenario for the events of April 19, 1989, was that the defendants came upon the jogger and subjected her to the same kind of attack, albeit with sexual overtones, that they inflicted upon other victims in the park, the report stated.  Perhaps attracted to the scene by the jogger’s screams, serial rapist Matias Reyes either joined in the attack as it was ending