Category Archive for : ‘TRACKING SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

Newsday/Robert E. Kessler 7/2/13 Michael Kelly Reiner, a 46 year old teacher at a Long Island school for gifted students andboasted about having a fetish for young boys, slavery and cannibalism, was arrested for havingchild-pornography videos on his home computer. He was arrested in the parking lot at Long IslandSchool for the Gifted, in Huntington, after classes in November 2006 following an investigationthat began when he was stopped by Canadian Border Patrol officials on August 4. He told them he wasentering Canada to visit a friend who shares his affinity

Newsday/Paul Larocco Last night the Suffolk Legislature passed an emergency bill that supporters said will end ayearslong debate about where to house homeless sex offenders while creating the toughestmonitoring and enforcement program in the nation.  The bill intensifies monitoring of thecounty’s 1,016 registered sex offenders and will close down trailers on the East End.  Thehomeless sex offenders will be dispersed to county homeless shelters throughout Suffolk but willnot be housed with families.  Upon enactment of this law, no one will have a strongerapproach than Suffolk County, said Laura Ahearn, executive

Newsday/Paul Larocco

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is pressing lawmakers to act Tuesday on an emergencybill requiring more aggressive monitoring of the county’s 1,106 convicted sex offenders.  Heplans to seek a certificate of necessity, which bypasses the committee process and publichearings that require advance notice.  Suffolk police would contract with Parents for Megan’sLaw, a nonprofit that seeks to prevent child sexual abuse to step up enforcement of requirementsthat convicted sex offenders accurately register their current addresses with police.  Bellonealso will close trailers on the East End that house 38 homeless

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Housing homeless sex offenders in Suffolk County’s shelter system — but away from homelessfamilies — and more intensely monitoring all registered sex offenders, is a plan that couldfinally solve a problem that has bedeviled the county for years.  The Suffolk legislatureshould approve the proposal, which would allow Suffolk to close trailers in Westhampton andRiverside currently housing 38 homeless offenders, and avoid clustering the men in any othercommunities.  Rather than continuing to lavish time, attention and resources on the fewoffenders who are homeless, the plan developed by Suffolk County police

Newsday/Paul Larocco

Suffolk County police yesterday unveiled a proposal that would intensify monitoring of thecounty’s 1,016 registered sex offenders and close trailers for homeless offenders on the EastEnd by dispersing them to shelters throughout the county.  Chief of Department James Burketold a county legislative committee that police will work with the Social Services department tomove the 38 homeless sex offenders now housed in trailers in Riverside and Westhampton into thecounty shelter system. He said offenders would be transferred to county homeless shelters, with nomore than one per facility. The offenders

rnrngendertrender.wordpress.comrnrn Last Wednesday, 56 year old transgender sex offender Paul Ray Witherspoon frightened arnfemale hospital patient while using the women’s restroom at Dallas Parkland Hospital while wearingrna bulky ankle tracking device used for high risk parolees.  He told police that he is a serialrnchild sexual predator now on monitored GPS tracking for his parole.  His driver’s licensernrecords him as male but calls himself Paula.  Witherspoon was convicted in 1990 for sexualrnassault of a child and indecency with a child involving sexual contact.  Both victims werernteenage girls.  According to the Texas