Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS WHO REOFFEND’

Newsday/Zachary R. Dowdy

James Bonfiglio, a 37 year old karate instructor who was arrested at his Ronkonkomaapartment in October 2007, is charged with committing a criminal sexual act, a felony, as well asmisdemeanor sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  He is accused of molesting a13 year old student in July.  Bonfiglio, owner of Excel Karate Academy, pleaded not guilty andwas held on $30,000 cash bail or $60,000 bond.  He was released from jail after postingbond.  Bonfiglio is also being investigated for secretly videotaping his students and havingimproper

New York Times/Abby Goodnough and Monica Davey

An aggressive federal effort to keep track of sexual offenders is at risk of collapse becauseof objections from states and legal challenges from sex offenders and others.  The effort,approved by Congress three years ago, requires all states to adopt strict standards for registeringsex offenders and is meant to prevent offenders from eluding the authorities, especially when theymove out of state.  The law followed several heinous crimes by sex offenders on the run,including Joseph E. Duncan III, who in 2005 fled North Dakota, where he

Newsday/Stacey Altherr and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

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Worry was the dominant feeling among Brentwood parents after hearing that a convicted sexoffender with HIV has had contact with teenagers in the area.  Brentwood school authoritiessay they believe as many as 20 teenage students in the district have had contact, and in some casessexual relations, with Robert Musmacker, 36, of Oceanside.  Musmacker, whose six year prisonterm for first degree sodomy ended in 1998, was arrested again December 28th in West Babylon, aftera state trooper stopped him for speeding and noticed that his

FBI

William Baker, 65, of Blasdell and Lackawanna, New York, who was convicted of Possession ofChild Pornography on October 3, 2008, was sentenced to 121 months in prison.  Baker waspreviously convicted of two counts of Sodomy in the Second Degree in 1988 in Erie County forconduct relating to sexual conduct with a minor.  He had been a boy scout leader forapproximately 30 years until his conviction in 1988.  Baker has admitted to molesting 8 to 48children. 
(Buffalo, New York)

Newsday/Ann Givens

Kevin E. Allocco, a 21 year old Bethpage man, pleaded not guilty in May 2007 to rape andsexual abuse charges stemming from two unrelated assaults that occurred years apart inNassau.  Allocco, of 4 Collector Lane, is accused in the 2004 forcible and statutory rape of a14 year old girl in Bethpage State Park and the sexual abuse of a 20 year old woman in Garden Cityin April.  Police said he knew both victims.  After the woman came forward recently,police began an investigation that revealed the rape of the

Newsday

The investigation of the disappearance of  a 12 year old girl from Vermontzeroed in on her uncle yesterday, with police searching his home while he was arraigned on sexcharges in an unrelated case.  Michael Jacques, a registered sex offender and one of the lastpeople seen with Brooke Bennett before she vanished, pleaded not guilty to a charge of aggravatedsexual assault and was held in lieu of $250,000 bail.  Jacques is called a person ofinterest in Brooke’s case. 
(Vermont)