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

Rev. Thomas Doyle, the Roman Catholic priest who has provided the most visible help to victims of clergy sex abuse for the past 18 years, has been fired as an Air Force chaplain by his archbishop and cannot celebrate public Masses.  Also in 1986, the Vatican Embassy in Washington ended his employment as staff canon lawyer after Doyle co-authored a detailed memo sent to the nation’s bishops that warned of the molestation crisis.  He became the most outspoken US priest in criticizing the American hierarchy’s handling of the scandal.  He

Cheryl Reyna, a 32 year old married teacher at Martin Luther High School in Maspeth, has been busted for carrying on a seven month lesbian romance with a 16 year old student.  The Spanish teacher was arraigned March 15 in Queens Criminal Court on charges of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  She has been suspended without pay from her job.  She was free on $1,500 bail.  Reyna allegedly began having sex with the girl in August 2003, when the student was 16.  The relationship began

Malcolm Brenner, a 65 year old retired city music teacher, was charged in 2003 with sexually abusing three of his young private piano students in Brooklyn. Brenner, of Queens, was accused of molesting two sisters, ages 10 and 12, and another 10 year old girl during hour-long piano lessons in their Sheepshead Bay homes. Prosecutors charged he fondled the girls and forced them to touch him during weekly sessions from April through November. Bail was set at $5,000 during his arraignment on December 8 on charges of sexual abuse, forcible

Malachi York, the 58 year old United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors founder, pleaded guilty to two federal charges, one involving transport of minors from upstate Sullivan County, NY to Georgia for sex.  He pleaded guilty to 77 of the state charges, which will put in prison for the rest of his life.  York declared his 476-acre spread a sovereign state, posted armed guards, and began publishing angry fliers alleging a racist conspiracy after local officials cited him for zoning and building violations.  Then, the letters arrived: typed, single-spaced appeals for

Daily News/Scott Shifrel

Chang Soo Park, a 50 year old Queens man, was sentenced to 15 years for molesting his daughter’sthen 12 year old friend. The victim was staying over at Park’s home on March 29, 2002, when she hada bicycle accident and hurt her knee, she told jurors. Park molested her while tending to herinjury. Park faced between five and 25 years in prison.

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Newsday/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

Joseph Acosta, a 38 year old Bellport Middle School teacher, was arrested May 5th and arraignedon May 6, 2003, on one count of third degree sodomy and three counts of endangering the welfare ofa child. Two weeks before, a parent complained that Acosta was sending sexually explicit e-mailmessages to his 12 and 13 year old students. Suffolk detectives seized his computer and poredthrough its contents. What they found suggested that Acosta was doing more than conversinginappropriately. Mr. Acosta met with a 16 year old boy on more than