Perv on Upper East Side subway platform boosts grope fear
BY Edgar Sandoval and Barry Paddock
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Police are hunting suspect in subway groping incident.
The Upper East Side groper may have struck again.
A 27-year-old woman told cops a sicko tried to look up her skirt Saturday inside the Lexington Ave./59th St. subway station.
The perv bent to one knee as the breeze from an oncoming train ruffled her dress about 1:45 p.m., police said. She yelled at him in Spanish and went to find police.
The description the woman gave cops was similar to that of the suspect accused of groping at least nine women since the start of the year. That suspect, whose image has been caught on subway security cameras, is described as about 5 feet tall and 125 pounds with spiky hair.
Police are investigating whether the same suspect is behind Saturday’s incident.
Women in the posh neighborhood remain on edge.
“It’s very unfortunate he’s still out there,” said Amy Knowlton, 27.
“It’s very strange that he chose the upper East Side. He only targets women here. All you can do is stay vigilant.”
Mary Brunner, 27, said she is always mindful of her surroundings.
“It’s awful,” said Brunner. “If I sense there is a man getting too close, I walk away or make sure I’m around people.”
Police ask anyone with information to call the NYPD‘s Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.
Pervert dwarf Ewoks free
AN actor who played a Star Wars Ewok walked free from court today despite being convicted of indecently exposing himself to a teen on a train.
Former panto star Nicholas Read has already received some measure of punishment however – a raft of cancellations by people no longer requiring his services.
Read, 40, had made up to £800 a week since the age of 16 appearing in pantomimes.
But as he was handed a suspended 20-week jail term, defence barrister Nigel Hamilton told the court: “He will not be able to do that anymore – he has had cancellations left, right and centre.”
It is understood Read, who also appeared in Harry Potter, has recently resorted to hiring himself out to stag parties. The role means being handcuffed to the stag while dressed as a Smurf or Oompa-Loompa.
Recorder Richard Bond voiced sadness at the actor’s current activities and expressed hope he would will be able to stick to “normal” roles in future.
Read – who played an Ewok in Return Of The Jedi – was convicted of indecent exposure last month after a 17-year-old girl told Leicester Crown Court how the actor performed a sex act under the cover of a juggler’s hat.
He had cornered her on a train but escaped jail despite having previous convictions for sexual offences, including an incident in which he clambered into the bed of a stage manager and his girlfriend.
They also included a series of “random” and explicit phone calls made to women from a hotel room as long ago as 1995.
Read, Cheadle, north Staffs, was arrested last October after “trapping” his victim in a window seat on a train travelling between London and Leicester.
Describing aspects of Read’s latest offence as chilling, the judge told him: “It was obvious that she was extremely scared by what you did to her.
“She was so scared that she couldn’t complain immediately for fear that you would touch her.”
Inspector Mark Clements, from the British Transport Police, slammed Read for forcing his victim to give evidence against him.
He said: “Read’s actions were deplorable. He targeted a young lone female, unable to move from her seat, was too scared to speak, and was paralysed by fear from his actions, worried he may assault her too.
“Read’s denial of committing this offence led to his victim having to relive the upsetting ordeal again in court.
“His behaviour was completely unacceptable but the victim reporting the incident straight away enabled police to make a swift arrest.”
Sentencing Read, Mr Bond said he had been caught in a dilemma.
He said: “A relatively short sentence of imprisonment will not help you, and it certainly will not protect the public from your fantasies.
“I have had to ask myself this question – is this a case where not just you, but more importantly, the public would benefit from you receiving a short custodial sentence? The answer to that is no.”
Read was ordered to undertake a community sex offender group work programme and must be monitored by the Probation Service.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3722134/Pervert-Ewok-walks-free.html
Legendary Mass. wrestling coach indicted on child porn charges; perv snuck into girls’ locker room
A former champion high school wrestling coach in Massachusetts was a closet child porn fiend, prosecutors charged.
David Castricone, 60, the state’s winningest high school wrestling coach, was indicted on two counts of possessing child porn by a grand jury in Essex County, Mass., on Wednesday.
The former North Andover High School coach was arrested on Feb. 14 after a student spotted him lurking in the girl’s locker room.
School officials who reviewed the locker’s security footage confirmed it was the coach, and a review of old footage caught the dirty old man creeping through the locker room at least nine times that month, The Eagle-Tribune reported.
Cops who searched his home said they found hundreds of images of adult and kiddie porn, including images of young girls posing provocatively in underwear and bikinis.
Castricone was a local legend, amassing a record of 681-142-3 and two state titles over his 38-year career.
He had coached at Andover for 25 years before resigning the day of his arrest. He also runs a roofing and siding business.
He’s set to appear before a jury in August.
Perv pensioner jailed four years 3
TORONTO - A retired building superintendent who molested a four-year-old girl for three years while babysitting her was sentenced Thursday to four years imprisonment.
“He has never demonstrated an ounce of remorse or insight,” Madam Justice Faye McWatt said in passing sentence on Benjamin Peter Phillips, now 72.
Phillips’ only prior crime is a 1983 drunk driving conviction where he was sentenced to 14 days jail.
“This was a shocking and serious breach of trust involving a four-year-old girl in crimes that lasted more than three years,” said McWatt, who found Phillips guilty of sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching in April this year.
The judge said the Scarborough pensioner blamed everyone but himself. He said the child “came on to him” and he accused her single mom, a survivor of childhood abuse, of compelling her daughter to make false allegations, said McWatt.
Phillips was 54 when he started sexually abusing the four-year-old girl in 1994 while babysitting her in the Danforth Rd.-Eglinton Ave. E. area apartment building where he was an assistant superintendent for six or seven years, court heard.
The abuse continued and escalated for three years, culminating in simulated intercourse in the last of six incidents, McWatt said. She agreed with Crown attorney Kosta Stratos that Phillips deserved a lengthy penitentiary term.
The now 20-year-old victim, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, finally divulged the abuse while she was in university.
Court heard her memories of what happened came back to her.
She was diagnosed as suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as she suffered from flashbacks, court heard.
Her troubled childhood also affected her relationship with her boyfriend.
She came forward to police in December 2008.
Court was told she stated she has been feeling better about herself since coming forward and dealing with what happened.
Phillips, who was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrated to Canada in 1973 as a landed immigrant. His marriage of 16 years ended in 1982 and he “cited the reason. . .was due to his ‘lack of sexual appetite,’” a pre-sentence report stated.
He was “never close to his three adult sons and has limited contact with them.”
When the pre-sentence report’s author asked Phillips why the victim would accuse him if it were not true, “he answered that the victim as ‘just copying her mother’ and that ‘her mother would blame everything on the child and sexual abuse.’”
Phillips, a former cable and phone installer, retired at age 60 and was collecting disability and welfare before he began receiving his pension at age 65.
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Dialysis delays perv’s sentence
First posted: Monday, July 4, 2011 10:51:06 CDT PM
A judge has postponed sentencing a Manitoba man guilty of sexually assaulting his young brother-in-law so he can complete dialysis treatments.
Court heard the case has already dragged its way through the courts since the man’s arrest in 2006.
The accused is not being named to protect the identity of his victim.
Judge Patti Umpherville heard submissions in the case and suspended sentencing until late August.
Crown attorney Sharyl Thomas opposed the man’s attempt to adjourn his case yet one more time.
“This is chronic renal failure, this is not a condition that is going to be fixed in four to six weeks,” Thomas said.
The now 57-year-old man pleaded guilty to one count of indecent assault in connection with offences dating back 30 years.
The victim didn’t report the abuse until 2006. He told police the accused — his sister’s husband — sexually abused him for three years, beginning when he was 11-years-old.
The victim kept the abuse secret for decades, fearing disclosure would tear his family apart.
“He remains haunted by the events,” Thomas said. “This is a crime that took away his ability to lead a normal life.”
The Crown is seeking a four year prison sentence, the defence two years.
“He understands he has to face the music and incarceration is inevitable,” said defence lawyer John Corona.
Corona said the man is a residential school survivor who himself suffered years of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.
D.S.K. swallows a bird, but the tabs won’t eat crow
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today’s winner?
The New York Post: Well, it’s about as big a piece of news as you can get right now in the case of former I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Investigations conducted by the district attorney’s office and by Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers, according to sources in several newspapers citing anonymous sources (starting with The New York Times yesterday), have revealed troubling facts about the Sofitel chamber-maid who accused the French politician of sexually assaulting her in his hotel room. “DSK CASE BOMBSHELL” reads the giant knockout-white type on a black field at the top of the page. The dek: “Maids ‘lies’ and ‘drug links’ leave DA no good witness.”
The Times report hit in time for other papers to pick up the story for today’s editions, but too late to make the papers that hit newsstands in France this morning. Never mind, the news is dominating television and the web over there, and basically every politician ever has weighed in and had their quotes picked up in the papers here.
I won’t go through what precisely the new revelations are; open your eyes in front of any television set or computer screen and you’ll get the details whether or not you want them.
But the best thing by far about the cover of today’s Post is the photo they managed of D.S.K. himself (which does not appear to me to be credited?). They’ve put his silhouette in the lower left-hand corner, which is the right decision because he looks like he’s looking right at you; the grin on his face and his chubby, liver-spotted hands clenched and joined so that he looks a bit like Boris from Bullwinkle awaiting the detonation of a bomb.
Daily News: Whereas the whole affair is more straightforward over on the News wood. Three fitfths of the page, vertically, is given to the story, under a little ribbon of a rubric that reads “LE PERV COULD WALK.” (As you may remember, “Le Perv” is the News’ attempt at a running nickname, despite the availability and apparent currency of DSK everywhere else.) Do you object that the News called D.S.K. “Le Perv” and now it looks possible he could escape his stringent bail requirements, or that the district attorney could drop the case altogether?
First of all, it hasn’t happened yet. Second of all, as bad and vague as “Le Perv” was as his nickname, it remains, in a way, true; this is not the first time he’s gotten in trouble for having sex with someone, even if the previous event concerned what appeared to be a consensual affair.
“‘CASE GONE TO HELL’” is the headline, in black, with a fairly nondescript silhouette of a troubled-looking D.S.K. set against a red block with knockout-white type that reads “Sources: Maid in sex attack not credible.”
It’s worth mentioning that the News also flags a story about Alicia Keys: a concert review from last night’s Beacon Theatre performance. That’s one way to get a pretty lady on the cover. And there’s also a Subway Series curtain-raiser advertised in a skybox at the top that is the width of the page.
Observations: If D.S.K. looks like the cat who swallowed the bird, readers (especially ones with sympathy for what seems to have emerged as the “French point of view” on the case in the last six weeks) will be unhappy to see how little crow the tabloids are eating this morning. But as I say, it would be premature. And what’s more, it reflects a misunderstanding of the tabloid aesthetic to consider it possible that they would.
The tabloid by its nature must follow every current lead as though it is the most amazing and shocking possible piece of news; having zigged too far in one direction, when revelations redirect the course of the story, only allows them to zag yet more dramatically the other way.
Still, they’re being cautious. You’ll notice that the tabloids as of today are taking care not to imply that the accuser in the D.S.K. case was not sexually assaulted, but only that her testimony is the only possible way of prosecuting a case in which the accused claims the sex was consensual, and that facts about the accuser will make that testimony difficult for the prosecution. In fact, it will make the testimony impossible: Among the problems the police found was a recorded interview between the accuser and a man in jail on drug charges in which the two discussed how she could profit from the coming trial. There’s more, but you already know most of it.
When it comes down to it, there is a ton of information to digest about this case today. All you want to do is get into it and start reading. So the sale that works is the one that looks the juiciest. And the D.S.K.-happy-as-a-cat picture wins.
