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March
GUILTY PLEA ON SEX WITH 16-YEAR-OLD NewsdayAnn Givens
A former North Hempstead budget official pleaded guilty yesterday to having sex with a 16-year-oldgirl who had told him by e-mail that she was 18, prosecutors said. Owen Sinclair, 46, of Oceansidepleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child. He had faced more serious statutory rapecharges for having sex with the girl twice at a Lynbrook motel, said Eric Phillips, a spokesman forNassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice. Sinclair is expected to receive probation when he issentenced May 27, Phillips said. It is illegal for an adult to have sex