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Child Abuse

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Brooklyn DA Hynes Does Damage Control Over Orthodox Sex Scandal

    A week after a blistering series in the New York Times detailing his apparent complicity in an effort by Brooklyn's Ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic leaders to cover up sex abuse in their communities, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is in damage-control mode. We noted earlier this week that some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Report: New York Had 114 Child Abuse Fatalities In One Year

    A report released by two New York district attorneys shows that New York is on the hook for more than seven-percent of all child abuse fatalities in the entire country.The report -- released by Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown and Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes -- looked at data from 2010, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 4, 2012

    Fat Worm of Error

    A report released by two New York district attorneys shows that New York is on the hook for more than seven-percent of all child abuse fatalities in the entire country.The report -- released by Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown and Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes -- looked at data from 2010, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    The Biggest Sexual Message Of The Year

    And this one came thanks to deposed coach Jerry Sandusky: Don't shower with kids! Don't "horse around"!

  • Voice Choices

    July 6, 2011

    Night Nurse

    And this one came thanks to deposed coach Jerry Sandusky: Don't shower with kids! Don't "horse around"!

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    NYC District Attorney Busts 25 in Child Porn Ring

    ​Twenty-five people were charged this afternoon with "possessing images or videos showing the sexual abuse of children," the New York Times reports, as announced by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. The felony charges include promoting a sexual performance by a child and possessin ... More >>

  • Film

    May 11, 2011

    'The Sickest Film Ever': A Serbian Film

    ​Twenty-five people were charged this afternoon with "possessing images or videos showing the sexual abuse of children," the New York Times reports, as announced by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. The felony charges include promoting a sexual performance by a child and possessin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Ana DeLarosa, Baby Sitter, Arrested for Shaking 3-Month-Old to Death

    The 26-year-old baby sitter of three-month-old Addison Reinoso-Xoyatla was arrested Friday in the death of the child, who was shaken to unconsciousness December 29 on 39th Avenue in Queens. Little Addison wasn't pronounced dead until January 5. Ana DeLarosa reportedly confessed to cops. She was ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    R.I.P., Sort of: New York State's Oldest Prisoner Dead at 101

    ​New York State's oldest prisoner, Theodore Sypnier, died yesterday at 101, of natural causes. He had been convicted of child molestation on two separate occasions, once in 1987 and again in 1999, and was let out on parole last year briefly; police soon took him back to jail because he did not ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2010

    Suzanne Vega

    ​New York State's oldest prisoner, Theodore Sypnier, died yesterday at 101, of natural causes. He had been convicted of child molestation on two separate occasions, once in 1987 and again in 1999, and was let out on parole last year briefly; police soon took him back to jail because he did not ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 24, 2010

    Sparrows

    ​New York State's oldest prisoner, Theodore Sypnier, died yesterday at 101, of natural causes. He had been convicted of child molestation on two separate occasions, once in 1987 and again in 1999, and was let out on parole last year briefly; police soon took him back to jail because he did not ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 9, 2010

    Child Abuse

    ​New York State's oldest prisoner, Theodore Sypnier, died yesterday at 101, of natural causes. He had been convicted of child molestation on two separate occasions, once in 1987 and again in 1999, and was let out on parole last year briefly; police soon took him back to jail because he did not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Staten Islander Busted With Loaded Gun Near Kid's Crib

    ​As a change of pace from our earlier story about a kid with a toy gun, here's one about an adult who allegedly kept a real, loaded gun around his kids. Cops busted in with a warrant on Milton Stilley, whom they say is a member of the Bloods, and found a loaded .380 within two feet of his 20- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    The Anselmo's Crazy Talk Tirade Continues

    Does this say "manufacturing explosives" to you?​ Back in December, Anselmo's Coal Oven Pizzeria closed its doors, and slice fanatics mourned its demise. Then the restaurant's owner got on the Anselmo's website to unleash a tirade on his landlady, whom he blamed for his business's closure. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Albany Makes Kids Stay in Booster Seats Until Age 8; Runnin' Scared Says, "Enough!"

    ​It's a wonder modern children survive past their teens, overprotected as they are from dirt, walking, etc. Now we have the state demanding parents keep their kids in car booster seats until the age of eight. The old law let children out of the ass-cradles when they reached seven, but the new ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2009

    SubArachnoid Space

    ​It's a wonder modern children survive past their teens, overprotected as they are from dirt, walking, etc. Now we have the state demanding parents keep their kids in car booster seats until the age of eight. The old law let children out of the ass-cradles when they reached seven, but the new ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 4, 2009

    Night Nurse

    ​It's a wonder modern children survive past their teens, overprotected as they are from dirt, walking, etc. Now we have the state demanding parents keep their kids in car booster seats until the age of eight. The old law let children out of the ass-cradles when they reached seven, but the new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Infant Dies in Assault

    View Larger Map DATE: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 5:34 p.m. LOCATION: 724 East 222 Street, The BronxPolice have arrested 20-year-old Naisha Riley, of Radcliff Ave in the Bronx, in connection with the murder and assault of her infant son at 724 East 222nd St. Riley is accused of shaking and beating the ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 22, 2009

    The Chinese Stars

    View Larger Map DATE: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 5:34 p.m. LOCATION: 724 East 222 Street, The BronxPolice have arrested 20-year-old Naisha Riley, of Radcliff Ave in the Bronx, in connection with the murder and assault of her infant son at 724 East 222nd St. Riley is accused of shaking and beating the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2008

    Children of Polygamists and Tony Alamo Get the Dr. Phil Treatment

    View Larger Map DATE: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 5:34 p.m. LOCATION: 724 East 222 Street, The BronxPolice have arrested 20-year-old Naisha Riley, of Radcliff Ave in the Bronx, in connection with the murder and assault of her infant son at 724 East 222nd St. Riley is accused of shaking and beating the ... More >>

  • Theater

    April 10, 2007

    No-Fly Zone

    2007 Olivier-winner makes NYC debut. Shrug.

  • Film

    February 28, 2006

    'The Neighbor No. Thirteen'

    2007 Olivier-winner makes NYC debut. Shrug.

  • Screens

    February 14, 2006

    Scarlet Letters

    When crime stat porn makes you sweat: Google-mapping sex offenders

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2006

    Your Turn: On the Death of Nixzmary Brown

    When crime stat porn makes you sweat: Google-mapping sex offenders

  • News

    January 6, 2004

    I Believe I Can Open My Fly

    Why Michael Jackson Is Damned and R. Kelly Is the Man

  • News

    May 20, 2003

    Complex Persecution

    A Long Island Family's Nightmare Struggle With Porn, Pedophilia, and Public Hysteria

  • News

    May 7, 2002

    Cardinal Knowledge

    Church Leaders Can't Run From the Scandal, but They Can Hide

  • News

    April 13, 1999

    Crisis In Family Court

    The City Gets Tough On Child Abuse and Neglect, And The Judicial System Staggers Under The Load

  • News

    April 21, 1998

    A Town Possessed by Satan

    'We were a family. Then all of a sudden, there's nobody left.'

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