Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

Sidney Ray Richardson, a 53 year old Montgomery County man, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for impregnating his 14 year old stepdaughter.  The girl became pregnant after a judge allowed Richardson to move back into the girl’s home following his release from jail for sexually abusing her when she was 9 and 10.   Richardson pleaded guilty in December to a third degree sex offense.  Prosecutors said he had sex with the girl while she was drunk and while he was on probation for sexually abusing her as

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

Timothy Melton, a 42 year old Elmont man who tried to perform oral sex on a 13 year old girl last summer, was sentenced yesterday to 1 1/3 to 3 years in prison.  Melton told Nassau County Court Judge David P. Sullivan in Mineola that he was sorry for what he had done.  I want to apologize to the young lady…, he said.   On June 26, 2004, Melton drove the girl, who was a friend of Melton’s 18 year old brother, and two other teenagers around town.  They went shopping

Church officials confirmed yesterday that Pope John Paul II has defrocked two priests convicted of sexually abusing children in Ireland, an unprecedented move in this predominantly Catholic nation.  The church declined to identify either man, but only two priests from the Ferns Diocese have been convicted of such abuse: Donal Collins, who was sentenced to four years in 1998 for abusing several boys, and James Doyle, who received a one year suspended sentence in 1990 for abusing one boy.  The most notorious priest, the Rev. Sean Fortune, committed suicide in

On March 3, Jose Garcia, 42, was arrested and charged with second degree attempted murder, two counts of first-degree assault, second-degree aggravated sexual abuse, first-degree sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child.  On February 29, 2004, Garcia noticed a 4-foot-10, 80 pound, 13 year old girl who walked to the convenience store just minutes from her home.  He decided to wait nearby for her.  As she walked home, the 5-foot-10, 180 pound Garcia pulled her into a garbage-strewn wooded area off the road.  There, he groped her, tore

Andre Rand, a 60-year-old convicted kidnapper and child molester was charged on February 15, 2001, in Staten Island with the 1981 kidnapping of 7-year-old Holly Ann Hughes.  Holly’s body has never been found.  He is serving a 25 years to life sentence for the 1987 kidnapping of 12-year-old Jennifer Schweiger who had Down’s syndrome.  Rand has a 1970 conviction for the attempted rape of a 9 year old.  He was arraigned on a first degree kidnapping charge which includes the presumption Holly Ann is dead.  He has also been identified