Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS WHO REOFFEND’

New York Times/Michael S. Schmidt

Taurean Williams, a 25 year old Upper Manhattan man, was arrested on Sunday on rape charges,just a little more than two months after prosecutors dropped similar charges against him. Williams was charged with raping a 45 year old woman on the rooftop of a building at 550 West 153rdStreet on New Year’s Day.  The woman told the police that the man said he was a plainclothespolice detective and displayed a badge, and said he needed to bring her to a local station to checkwhether there were

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Police in Maryland were searching Christmas Eve for a missing 11-year-old girl last seenwearing fuzzy Christmas pajamas, and they have charged Thomas J. Leggs Jr., a 30 year oldregistered child sex offender, in her disappearance.  Leggs, of Salibury, is charged withburglary and with kidnapping Sara H. Foxwell.  A charging document says Leggs was the lastperson seen with Sarah.  A juvenile witness awoke during the night Tuesday and saw Sarahleave the bedroom with Tommy, and said he was wearing blue jeans, an orange jacket and whitesneakers.  Sarah’s aunt says her

Yahoo News/Juliet Williams and Samantha Young

Jaycee Lee Dugard, an 11 year old girl snatched on her way to school was hidden fornearly two decades behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her suspectedabductor’s children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhoodhome.   Jaycee, now 29, was abducted in 1991 and was taken directly to the house andsheltered from the world by Phillip Garrido, who raped her and fathered two children withher.  The first when Jaycee was about 14.  Those girls, now 11 and 15, also

Newsday/Robert E. Kessler

Joseph Burkett, a 41 year old clerk at a Setauket deli with a history of sexually abusingchildren, has been charged with molesting several boys, at least one of whom he met on the MySpaceWeb site, after using the Internet to lure them to his Sound Beach home.  Burkett, ofShinnecock Drive in Sound Beach, was arrested June 14, 2007 and charged with two counts of using achild in a sexual performance, one count of committing a criminal sexual act and one count ofsexual abuse.  Officials have identified five

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