Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

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A judge today sentenced 66 year old serial killer Rodney Alcala to death for the stranglingand beating deaths of four women and a 12 year old girl in the 1970s.  He was convicted lastmonth of five counts of first degree murder.  After the verdict, authorities released morethan 100 photos of young women and girls found in Alcala’s possession in hopes of linking him toother unsolved murders around the country. Alcala has been sentenced to death twice before the 1979murder of young Robin Samsoe, but those verdicts were overturned on

New York Times/Sewell Chan

Steven Pappas, a 48 year old Brooklyn man, was charged on Friday withthird-degree burglary, a felony, and second-degree criminal impersonation, a misdemeanor after hetook over a shuttered city-owned parking lot in Lower Manhattan and charged drivers to leave theirvehicles there on at least two days in September.  When police officers confronted Pappas, hefled, but left behind a soda can, from which investigators collected his DNA and identifiedhim.  State records show that Pappas is a registered sex offender.  He was convicted offirst-degree sexual abuse in March 2000 and

AOL News/Sean Murphy

Under a plea deal, David Harold Earls, a 64 year old ex-convict, of the southeasternOklahoma town of McAlester, who is accused of raping a 4 year old girl was sent to jail for only ayear.  The deal has prompted outrage across Oklahoma, where lawmakers are calling for theremoval of the judge who approved the deal and the attorney general is investigating a new set ofabuse allegations.  Earls pleaded no contest last month to first degree rape and forciblesodomy.  Normally, the rape charge carries a sentence of between

Newsday/Robert E. Kessler

Joseph Burkett, a 41 year old clerk at a Setauket deli with a history of sexually abusingchildren, has been charged with molesting several boys, at least one of whom he met on the MySpaceWeb site, after using the Internet to lure them to his Sound Beach home.  Burkett, ofShinnecock Drive in Sound Beach, was arrested June 14, 2007 and charged with two counts of using achild in a sexual performance, one count of committing a criminal sexual act and one count ofsexual abuse.  Officials have identified five

New York Post

Israel Weingarten, a 59 year old rabbi, who was convicted of sexually molesting his daughterand then relentlessly grilling her on the witness stand was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was hit with the extra hefty term as punishment for making a spectacle at trial by acting as hisown lawyer and cross-examining the victim and other relatives.
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Newsday/Zachary R. Dowdy

James Bonfiglio, a 37 year old karate instructor who was arrested at his Ronkonkomaapartment in October 2007, is charged with committing a criminal sexual act, a felony, as well asmisdemeanor sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  He is accused of molesting a13 year old student in July.  Bonfiglio, owner of Excel Karate Academy, pleaded not guilty andwas held on $30,000 cash bail or $60,000 bond.  He was released from jail after postingbond.  Bonfiglio is also being investigated for secretly videotaping his students and havingimproper