Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

As a Pennsylvania prosecutor filed criminal charges on October 2, 2002, against three MephamHigh School football players accused of sexually assaulting younger teammates at a preseasontraining camp, a source familiar with the investigation said other, less violent hazing by the sameboys was pervasive during the trip. A parent of one junior varsity player said that over the courseof the weeklong camp in Preston Park, Pa., younger boys were sprayed with shaving cream, had powderand gel put in their eyes and hair, and had the hair ripped off their legs and

Saul Dos Reis, the 25 year old accused killer of 13 year old Christina Long, whom he met over the Internet, knew she was underage when he strangled her during sex. He has pleaded guilty to strangling and sexually assaulting Christina on May 17, 2002, and he faced being sent to prison for 30 years. Dos Reis entered his plea to manslaughter, sexual assault charges. When Christina’s aunt told police she was missing, they checked her America Online account and learned Dos Reis had arranged to meet Christina at the

New York Post/Lorena Mongelli and Marsha Kranes

Robert D. DeRosario, 41, doing time for molesting a dozen teenagers, was charged yesterday withthe brutal murder of 12 year old Orlandito Rosario-Maldonado, whose decomposed body was foundburied near a Westchester parkway more than five years ago. DeRosario became a prime suspect earlyin the investigation after witnesses reported they had seen Orlandito in his apartment building onNovember 2, 1998, the day he disappeared. He was arrested soon after on charges that he hadsodomized five neighborhood boys, some of them forcibly. Additional child molestation chargesfollowed

Christopher T. Ross, a 33 former youth minister at St. Kilian Catholic Church in Farmingdale, was arrested and charged after admitting to police that he sodomized a 17 year old boy in April 2001. The victim, now 20, met Ross through the church’s youth group when he was 15. He told police about the alleged sodomy earlier this year, saying that it happened while he was sleeping at Ross’ home on April 27, 2001. Parents of children who attend religious education classes at St. Kilian say the church pastor wasn’t

Arturo Soriano, a 28 year old Queens pervert who spent an entire weekend sexually abusing his girlfriend’s 10 year old daughter, was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday after a judge offered him a deal, despite a prosecutor’s cries of junk justice.

Assistant DA Eric Rosenbaum told Supreme Court Justice John Latella, The people oppose this plea bargain in the strongest terms for many reasons.  His acts were extreme, they were calculated, they were depraved.  Rosenbaum said Soriano was taking his young victim out for pizza on April 3,

Marcus Dixon was an 18 year old high school football player with a 3.96 grade-point average and a scholarship to attend Vanderbilt University when he was arrested. He was convicted of aggravated child molestation and statutory rape for having consensual sex with a fellow student. The girl was only 15 at the time. Attorneys for Dixon told the Georgia Supreme Court in January that the teen’s automatic 10 year sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Prosecutors insisted the mandatory prison term was exactly what state law intended for Dixon.