The body of 6 year old Christopher Barrios, who vanished a week earlier in Georgia, was found by searchers inside a black trash bag. Police arrested four people, convicted child molester George Edenfield, his parents and their friend Donald Dale, in connection with the boy’s disappearance.
(Brunswick, Georgia)
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Harvey L. Holmes, III, a 42 year old Hicksville man, grabbed and groped four women and a younggirl during a half-hour spree in parking lots and convenience stores throughout the hamlet beforehe was arrested. Holmes, of 104 Dean Street, was being held yesterday in the psychiatric ward ofNassau University Medical Center in East Meadow after his arrest Saturday on charges includingsexual abuse, imprisonment, forcible touching, menacing and child endangerment. He had beenreleased without bail in a sexual abuse case in October. Holmes is unemployed and was born deaf. Hehas
Jason Forgetta, a 29 year old registered sex offender, was arrested for allegedly molesting two young girls in Brooklyn and he may be linked to several more attacks. He was charged with molesting a 15 year old in a Williamsburg alley last April and fondling a 7 year old behind a nearby apartment building last October. Forgetta was deemed a Level 3 sex offender, the worst of the worst, after he was convicted of first degree sexual assault in May 2002.
(New York)
Eric S. Fischer, a 23 year old Sayville man, was arraigned on charges of attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor, endangering a child’s welfare and engaging in a criminal sex act for showing up at a Coram cemetery expecting to have sex with a 13 year old girl he met on a vampire freaks Web site but instead found Suffolk detectives who arrested him for the attempted act. Fischer was arrested in March 2006 on rape charges after a 16 year old told her friend she had met
John Tonnessen, a 48 year old convicted sex offender from Pensacola, remains behind bars this weekend. He’s accused of soliciting sex over the internet from what he thought was a 13 year old boy but turned out to be police. Tonnessen served time in jail on a 1985 child molestation conviction.
(Pensacola, Florida)
George Lynn Perez, a 30 year old Level 3 registered sex offender on parole, has been charged with kidnapping, rape and being a habitual offender. Perez, a parking lot sweeper who lives at 14388 Pleasant Ridge Road, is to be arraigned March 5 and remains in jail on $500,000 bond. He was arrested on January 25 after a 10 year old girl gave a detailed description of a man grabbing her, dragging her behind a storage building and molesting her, all on school property, a little after 7 a.m. Perez