Category Archive for : ‘YOUTH MINISTER’

Newsday/Robin Topping

Matthew Maiello, a 31 year old man who formerly directed the youth ministry at St. Raphael’sRoman Catholic Church in East Meadow, was charged with sexually abusing two teenagers he metthrough the parish. Maiello, of 39 Grove Street in Lynbrook, was arrested in the parking lot ofKellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale on April 4, 2003. He had been an English teacher therefor nearly two years, since leaving his job at the church. There have been no similar incidentsreported at the high school. Cops say Maiello molested two girls in

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

Carlos Desuze, a 32 year old former youth minister from Baldwin, was charged with third degree statutory rape yesterday after a 17 year old girl told her parents and police she was having a sexual relationship with the minister that began when she was 16.  Desuze was arrested at his parents home at 984 Steele Blvd., in Freeport.  He had been employed as a youth minister for the Word of Life Ministries in Freeport for the past five years until a month ago.  He knew the teen and her family