Category Archive for : ‘General’

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Dr. Stuart Copperman, a Merrick pediatrician, was stripped of his medical license for sexuallyabusing patients but can continue treating children until a hearing on his appeal January 16. Atemporary restraining order against the state health department, which had revoked the license wasgranted. Seven women testified that he had sexually abused them during physical exams between 1978and 1989. The condition was imposed on the doctor, requiring that a chaperone be present during allpatient exams. In 1988, a different panel of the Office of Professional Medical Conduct heardsimilar complaints from different

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Police arrested Joseph Edward Nichols for a series of bizarre attacks in which young girls weresprayed with bodily fluids from a squirt gun. The 29 year old from Pine Hills has been charged withlewd or lascivious acts with a child for a series of attacks over the past year. Before the attackshe would allegedly steal a water gun from a discount department store, load it with his semen andthen spray young girls with it. In the last attack he approached a girl at an Orlando area K-Martand asked her to

Michael Bevans, a 29 year old Hempstead man, was arraigned on charges that he lured a 13 year old and a 14 year old girl to a hotel room for sex after meeting one of them in an online chat room several days ago.  He picked up the girls at a Long Island Railroad station in Nassau County on Friday evening and took them to the Broadway Motor Inn on Route 100 in East Farmingdale.  After the 14 year old left the hotel room, she called her parents who then

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Valtrez Stewart, a 19-year-old sex offender who had been posing as a music video producer togain teenage girls’ confidence and then force them to bite his navel, is accused of threatening tokill the girls unless they complied. Stewart is a convicted sex offender from Illinois. He isfacing child molestation, false imprisonment and assault charges in Fulton County. He is being heldwithout bond in Clayton County on a forgery charge.

(Atlanta, Georgia)

Sexual abuse lawsuits against the Reverend Philip Magaldi, a priest at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, were dismissed by a federal judge.  Thomas A. Marks, the plaintiff passed away about two weeks before the suit was dismissed.  Magaldi allegedly sexually abused Marks during the 1970s when he was a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island.  Magaldi denied the allegations since they emerged in April 1999 and said that he never met Marks and the accusations were an attempt to extort money from the Catholic Church.

Norman Edward Rose, a convicted child sex offender, was arrested after complaints that he dressed up as a clown and inappropriately touched several young girls at a Christmas parade.  Rose, who will turn 64 on Sunday, was not invited to the weekend march on December 2 but allegedly donned a familiar disguise and joined in anyway.  People at the parade alerted patrol officers that a clown riding a scooter was touching children inappropriately, they told him to stop what he was doing and leave the parade.  According to APBnews.com, police