Category Archive for : ‘BABYSITTERS’

Marc F. Gunning, 38, who was indicted on 28 counts of sex crimes, including 21 counts of sodomy, committed suicide in the Riverhead jail in May 2000.  Gunning has easily gained the trust and adoration of his neighbors in Coram soon after he rented a room from a family in February 1999.  He was trusted to babysit children and served as a big brother to local youths.   None of their parents know that, in 1995, he was convicted of third degree sexual abuse or that he would strike again.  He

Trent Fouts, 35, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the torture killing of a toddler left in his care.  He was convicted of murder in March for the 1997 murder of 1 1/2 year old.    Fouts said he had gotten high just before the boys mother left.  He was acquitted of a molestation charge.

Trent Fouts, 35, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the torture killing of a toddler left in his care.  He was convicted of murder in March for the 1997 murder of 1 1/2 year old Joshua Massengill.  According to the Associated Press, the boy was found propped up against a wall at a convalescent hospital.  His body was scalded and bruised and the skin on his genitals was nearly rubbed off.  He had been struck with a narrow rod nearly two dozen times.  Fouts said he

Maria Darrosa, 29, of 21 Brentwood Road, Bay Shore, was sentenced to 6-12 years in prison yesterday for first-degree sodomy.  Darrosa was caught on videotape last year sexually abusing a Rockville Centre toddler in her charge while babysitting.  She apologized for the crime to which she pleaded guilty in September.  She could have faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted by a jury according to Assistant District Attorney Kyle Rose.  After the child’s parents had been warned by another babysitter last December that Darrosa was yelling at their