Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

Daily News/Chrisena Coleman

Gary Coleman, a 52 year old Bronx math teacher, paid at least two of his students $100 each forsexual favors and allowed them to skip classes so he could sexually abuse them. Coleman, who wasteaching grades 6 through 8 at IS 158 in the Melrose section, was arraigned in Bronx Criminal Courton charges of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. He pleaded not guilty.The victims were ages 12, 13, and 14. He paid two of the boys on at least one occasion whileallegedly performing

Newsday/Zachary R. Dowdy

Lorne Kubat, a 34 year old former New York City police officer from Ronkonkoma, was sentenced to6 months in jail for luring five teenage girls into his home with alcohol and drugs to have sexwith them, one of the victims being his own partner’s daughter. Kubat, who retired from the forcewithin the past two years with an injury after about nine years of service, was sentenced Wednesdayto 6 months in jail and 10 years probation. He was convicted of third degree rape, committing acriminal sexual act, forcible touching

Anibal Ortiz, a 41 year old former Democratic Party district leader and ex-cop, was convicted by a Brooklyn jury of sodomizing the 13 year old sister of his ex-fiance. The girl was sodomized while he showed her a porno tape.  He faced up to seven years behind bars at sentencing for sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  Judge James Sullivan put Ortiz behind bars for three to six years yesterday.  With the sentence, he scolded him for violating the girl he was supervising while his ex-fiancee

Daily News/Chrisena Coleman and Owen Moritz

Luis Acosta, also known as Jose Santiago, is a 36 year old suspected serial rapist from Brooklynwith a penchant for schoolgirls, and has been charged with four additional attacks in Queens. Theadditional charges came after a grand jury indicted him on charges he raped six women in The Bronx.Prosecutors say in 1999 he talked his way into the Jackson Heights home of a 9 year old girl byposing as a plumber. That December, he allegedly forced his way into a Richmond Hill home and rapeda

Marci Stein, a 32-year-old respected special education teacher, was fired as a result of rumors about oral sex in classrooms, steamy love making at the teacher’s home and even young boys performing sex acts in front of video cameras.  She was charged with statutory rape, sodomy, sexual abuse, unlawfully dealing with a child and endangering the welfare of a child.  The Hendrick Hudson HS teachers’ lawyer, Jonathan Lovett, denies the sex charges.  He said Stein first heard the stories when some female students approached her.  She went that day and

New York Post/Laura Italiano

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When Arohn Kee was 29,the serial killer rapist who preyed on teen girls in Harlem, stood at therndefense table, apologizing for his crimes, for the first time, in a pre sentencing statement whenrnthe Maximo Duverge, 31, leapt from the back row. Kee had killed Duverge’s cousin Johalis Castro,rn19, in 1997 and may have set her body on fire while she was still alive. Court officers heldrnDuverge back before he could attack Kee, who had just tearily told the packed room, I am sorry.\rnKee will serve life without