Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF TRUST’

Vincent McCollum, a 45 year old hulking sex offender, broke into his girlfriend’s Staten Island home yesterday and repeatedly raped her 15 year old daughter, then beat the girlfriend, locked the doors, and set the house on fire. The daughter, naked except for a housecoat, escaped, screaming to stunned neighbors: My mom is in trouble! He raped me! He raped me! As flames ripped through the house, firefighters broke down the door and rushed to a bedroom to grab the mother and her ex, who both lay unconscious. McCollum was

The recent suspension of a Westbury day care center over its employment of 51 year old Emmett Charles, a convicted sex offender, highlights the question of how long such offenders can be restricted from working in jobs where there are children. According to authorities, Charles, employed as a handyman at Play Play Play before its license was suspended by the state this month, committed no crime in taking a job where he had contact with youngsters. Instead, they say, it fell to the center’s employer to screen employees.

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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

Ryan Hogan, a 24 year old Brooklyn firefighter, was arrested yesterday for allegedly trying to lure what he thought was a 14 year old girl into having sex. He allegedly did some of the illicit wooing on a firehouse computer at Engine 237 in Bushwick. The teen online was an adult member of a watchdog group called Perverted Justice that patrols Net chat rooms to catch what it calls wanna-be pedophiles. Hogan was released on a $250,000 bond. A crew member from the NBC-TV show Dateline was filming the sting

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Neil Goldschmidt, a 63 year old Carter administrator cabinet secretary, admitted to a sexualrelationship with a 14 year old girl in the 1970s when he was mayor of Portland. The affair lasted9 months, which started in 1975 when he was 35 and married. He admitted the affair to the PortlandOregonian after learning the Willamette Week newspaper was going to disclose it. According toOregon laws in 1975, sex with a girl under 16 is rape, but the statute of limitations expired in1979. He said he agreed to a financial settlement with

David Conlon, a 54 year old veteran city employee, was arrested yesterday for allegedly downloading more than 250 images of child pornography on his office computer. Conlon, the director of printing services for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, admitted downloading x-rated pictures of young girls after he was caught by Internet-monitoring software. He was immediately suspended without pay from his $57,233-a-year job. Investigators recovered the images, which had been viewed and deleted. Conlon is charged with possessing a sexual performance by a child. He faces up to four years