Category Archive for : ‘FOSTER CARE ADOPTION’

Lt. Col. Douglas Winckelmann, who was busted in an Internet sex sting in February for sending obsecene pictures of himself to a detective he though was a teen boy, is accused by his adopted son that he was adopted for the sole purpose of sexually abusing him.  Rey Rodriguez says Winckelmann repeatedly molested him while he lived at a Long Island group home in the 1980s.  The abuse continued once Rodriguez left the facility.  He would occasionally stay with Winckelmann at his home in Selden, where the molestation became more

New York Post/Denise Buffa and Lorena Mongelli

Jose Lozada is accused of molesting two girls from September 1999 through January 2000, thenages 5 and 6, by their grandmother who has slapped the city with a shocking civil suit, claimingthe ACS placed her granddaughters in a foster home with a known sex offender, who molested them.The woman says the Administration for Children’s Services put the girls in the home of Lozada, whosexually assaulted, harmed, injured and abused them. He was charged with felony sexual abuse inconnection with the girls’ complaints, but pleaded

New York Post/Mark Bulliet, Philip Messing and Angelina Cappiello

A 41 year old child-welfare supervisor at the city’s embattled Administration for Children’sServices raped his own daughters for years and even convinced authorities to let him fostersexually abused kids in his own home. The Harlem man was slammed with child porn and statutory rapecharges yesterday after he confessed to the rapes. Prosecutors said they found naked photos of hisdaughters on his computer and a loaded gun in his apartment. It is unknown if he abused the twofoster kids in his care. The

A girl and her mother are suing a Brooklyn foster-care agency and the child’s former caretakers for $40 million, charging the girl was sexually abused.  The girl, now a teenager, was in the foster parents’ care from 1996 to 2000.  The girl and her mom say the child was molested while in the care of the foster parents, who were provided by the not-for-profit group Little Flower Children’s Services.  The suit charges that the agency and foster parents knew or should have known she was being sexually assaulted by her

A woman, identified only as 50 year old Christa W., was arrested in connection to the disappearance of 5 year old Pascal Zimmer and authorities have uncovered horrifying evidence of a pedophilia ring.  Allegations that the woman sexually abused children and made them available to patrons of her bar came out after investigators found pornographic materials in her home.  Twelve other people, regulars at her bar, have since been arrested on suspicion they all sexually abused and murdered Zimmer.  Two more have been arrested only on sex abuse charges.  Authorities

Thomas Cusik, 47, a songwriter accused of 33 counts of molesting his adopted children, has committed suicide.  He left behind an audiotape and suicide note in a hotel where he checked in under the name Henry Amoroso.  Cusik had opened his home over the past 20 years to dozens of orphan boys.  A pretrial on charges that he molested seven of his adopted sons was scheduled for Wednesday in which he was scheduled to appear in Bucks County Court.  His trial was to begin April 26th.  Cusik’s body was found