New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

These days, it is very hard to trust others especially when it comes to leaving our kids with people who you can truly rely on. There are many cases these days where nannies and even babysitters are accused of committing sex crimes that involve the children of their own employers according to a New York sex crime lawyer. This goes the same for this case that is considered as an example here in this report for you to understand better the legal proceedings for such cases. The one involved here as the accused is James Watt.

Watt was convicted of rape, sodomy and for putting into danger the welfare of a little child. The crimes involved in his case are considered very heinous since it was committed against innocent and helpless tiny girls who are under 11 years old. These kids according to their parents were entrusted to him since he operates a basement based daycare center in the community. The problem that made everything worse according to another New York child pornography lawyer is that the daycare center was not registered.

A New York Sex Crime Lawyer said that all of the kids involved as victims gave their testimonies in detail even if it was really heinously specific in detail. The New York sex abuse lawyer backed this all up with formal medical evidence from experts done through proper medical examinations of the children. Many of them already showed suffering from diseases which are sexually transmitted. It was actually very sensitive to discuss but this could be a true learning experience for many and how they would be able to protect their children. The total number of crimes that was perpetrated against him includes twelve kids. This of course means that this case should be well investigated and be well prepared.

A Suffolk County Family Lawyer said that to add more formality and technicality on the investigation of this particular sex crime, the court got the service of a master psychologist by the name of Eileen Treacy. She is an expert in handling the sex abuse syndrome with kids. She interviewed seven of the kid victims and the result of her analysis led to the conviction of Watt being guilty of the crime. According to a New York sex with minor defense lawyer the reports were all asked to be gathered and presented to the court.

In the end, what was most important for the court is to offer utmost protection to the innocent victims of Watt. All of them have gone through so much trauma and abuse that this could bring negative effects to how they will handle the future ahead of them. And it is important that such a crime should not just go unpunished. It is also such a weak reason to use that he should not be convicted just because no one can say the exact dates of the sex crime and abuse that were committed. And hence, the Court made the right decision to convict and punish such a person as James Watt for pretending to love and care for kids just so he can take advantage of sexually abusing them.

A Westchester County Criminal Lawyer said that it is very important these days that you get to know or be in touch with the credible lawyer who can offer complete assistance to you especially if it is your own child who has fallen victim to such a heinous crime as this of Watt. The best place to start off your search for the right New York sex with minor defense lawyer is the office of Stephen Bilkis & Associates.

A serial killer’s graveyard was thought only to contain the bodies of women, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Police were therefore shocked to find the body of an infant or a child buried there.

“One doesn’t match the others. It’s a young person, possibly as young as an infant, or a child,” one witness reported. The same source also suggested the victim may be due to another killer entirely.

There have been seven other murder victims found on that stretch of Long Island beach. Four of these people were found close to each other in December 2010 and were all confirmed to be prostitutes on Craigslist who disappeared after meeting a john. The other four, which includes the body of the child, were discovered just a few miles away. The second set of four were all within half a mile of each other. Sources explained that while the first set of four have been identified, the second set remains unknown.

Suffolk County’s monetary woes may have played a role in the difficulty of solving the murders, according to a Suffolk County Criminal Lawyer. Officials are trying to avoid paying overtime, which means reduced patrols along the beach area where the bodies were buried.

Patrols of the area were once the job of the Marine Bureau, placed on the beach, but the job was given to police authorities, which could be as much as a 40-minute drive away. This lasted from early 2009 to the end of 2010, when the first bodies were found. There have been no weekend searches, either, thanks to fears of overtime costs.

Investigators believe the killings are related to the murders of four prostitutes in Atlantic City in 2006, due to similar aspects in both cases. “It’s the same guy,” one person alleges.

The four bodies found in December were all strangled, just like the bodies found in Atlantic City in 2006. In Atlantic City, the bodies were also dumped near water, near each other, in deserted areas.

Often with criminal offenses, there are multiple crimes involved, including a domestic violence issue, drug offense, or sex crime. It is important to seek quality legal representation to ensure that your rights are protected.

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A prep school teacher has become what some consider to be “a parent’s worst nightmare” after pleading guilty to child pornography charges, sources told a Nassau County Sex Crimes Lawyers.
The 28-year-old teacher admitted to using an internet file-sharing program to download videos of children engaged in sexual activities.
“I did use it to download material considered to be child pornography,” the ex-teacher told a federal district judge as the ex-teacher and his family sat in a nearly empty courtroom.
The ex-teacher started teaching fourth- and fifth-graders at a number of elite schools since 2005. Investigators traced the pornographic material to the house of the teacher’s father between September 2007 and May 2010.
“[The ex-teacher] is a parent’s worst nightmare – a person entrusted with the well-being of their children who is avidly consuming child pornography on the side,” a U.S. attorney informed. “He will be punished for his crime and will never be in close proximity to children again.”
Prosecutors wanted the ex-teacher to be jailed until he is sentenced on June 27, because he may spend up to five years in prison, but the judge allowed him to remain free on $50,000 bail.
“The one thing I will insist on is that he not be involved in any kind of stuff with children,” the judge said. The ex-teacher had no comment on the matter. A NYC Criminal Lawyer and those in Suffolk and Westchester Counties are well aware that certain judges are very harsh when it comes to sex crimes and in involvement of children in them.

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A Dallas man is suing the county, the sheriff, and the district attorney after he spent 13 months in jail without access to a lawyer or a court hearing.

The 22-year-old man had been pulled over for a traffic stop. He wished to hide the arrest warrant for violating his parole on a drug charge against him so he used his cousin’s name. He thought the 25-year-old husband and father had a clean record. However, that was not the case; a New York Criminal Lawyer was told.

The cousin also had an arrest warrant with charges of fondling a young relative. The 22-year-old man was arrested, booked, and put into jail.

The 22-year-old man had used his cousin’s name before and the police had the name listed as an alias. They however did not know the cousin was a real person. There were no fingerprints on record for the cousin so they could not compare both men’s prints.

A lawyer had been assigned to the 22-year-old man’s case, but court staff later told him that he already had a lawyer. The 22-year-old man was able to get in contact with his cousin and the cousin turned himself in. He was booked and released on bond. The courts in New York City and also Suffolk County try to make sure that all have proper defense attorneys.

The 22-year-old man had tried several attempts to make the police, the judge, and the prosecution aware of the mix-up. The cousin’s lawyer worked to get the 22-year-old man freed. He requested to see the judge so that they could show a picture of the 22-year-old man to the young relative to determine if he was the same man, according to a New York Sex
Crime Lawyer. When she cleared him, the 22-year-old man was immediately released.

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Florida authorities have arrested a former Elementary School group leader of a Florida Elementary School after school program, a Criminal Lawyer in New York has learned. The arrest is the result of an investigation that alleges the 21-year old taped a child to a chair in order to stop the child from crying.
Police have told lawyers the former group leader used wrapping tape to tie a 5-year old boy to a chair. The suspect is then alleged to have held the chair, with the 5-year old boy still taped to it, upside down all the while threatening the boy that he would not put the chair down until the child stopped crying. The allegations further allege that after another student had placed the 5-year old boy into a large trash can, that the suspect would not allow the boy to get out of the trash can as he continued to push the boy back down. The suspect would also quickly undo the tape if a teacher would be walking toward the room. There were no Sex Crimes charged in this case although there was some suspicion.
A NYC Criminal Lawyer was also told that the suspect was in the process of being terminated as a result of some ongoing performance issues, but had resigned before the review had been completed by the school district. Once the allegations became known to the school district, the proper authorities were notified and an investigation initiated into the alleged incidents. In Suffolk County and Nassau County, school officials are always alert to these kinds of transgressions by teachers. Sometimes and Nassau County Sex Crime Lawyer gets involved in this type of case, for obvious reasons.
Although the suspect does not have teaching credentials and is no longer employed by the school district, the local community has been very vocal on this issue, and many are wondering how this could happen in their local school. Furthermore, it has been asked by many of just whatever gave this 21-year old the idea that taping a 5-year old child to a chair and then holding the chair and child upside down would stop the child from crying. Holding a child in a trashcan is also highly unlikely as a tool to use on any child to stop them from crying.
The investigation is ongoing, and the community is awaiting more answers as to the rest of the story.

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The evidence has been mounting against two police officers accused of rape. Prosecutors have told New York City Criminal Lawyers a 911 call they received from a Canadian tourist regarding the crime was actually one of the officers trying to pin the charges on a “smelly” homeless man. The call was made from a pay phone in the East Village.
The alleged rapist and his accomplice, who may have served as a lookout, are said to have faked the call, so they would have more time to make the second of four visits they paid to the apartment of a drunk woman early one December morning in 2008.
According to the victim, she had passed out on her bed. She awakened to the sound of the alleged rapist removing his bulletproof vest before raping her.
“There’s a homeless guy… just sleeping there in the hallway,” the caller said on the 911 tape. He claimed to be from Canada, but witnesses say the voice sounded much more Manhattan than Manitoba.
“He smells pretty bad,” the caller continued. “He’s a homeless guy. You know, he didn’t bother anybody but, he’s like, right in the front door.” In Westchester and Suffolk Counties these kinds of crimes are treated very harshly by authorities.
The two accused officers told their superiors they spent the time from 2 to 2:30 a.m. dealing with this alleged homeless person who was sleeping in the foyer of the building.
Prosecutors tell a different story. According to them, the officers were a number of doors away, in the apartment of the victim, who was 28 years old at the time. She was so drunk, the cabby she’d used to get home called for police assistance to help her get out of the taxi.
That corner was where the 911 phone call was made. The two officers had been there, dealing with a fender bender and a New York City Criminal Lawyer also inspected the scene.
The officers did not want any assistance with the homeless man that was reported, even though they received offers from another nearby patrol.
“Central!” One of the accused officers is reported to have said to the dispatch. “Don’t. Disregard, Central. We got it. We got it.”

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A Brooklyn man accused of the murder of his girlfriend during a domestic violence dispute sobbed apologies as police led him out of a police station in handcuffs.

“I’m sorry,” the suspect said, as he was led away from the 62nd Precinct stationhouse. “I loved [her]. I’m sorry to her family. I’m sorry for my children.”

His 34-year-old girlfriend was found dead in a bathtub in the suspect’s apartment. Prosecutors explained to a New York Criminal Lawyer that the woman had been beaten, strangled, and stabbed several times in the neck and body.

According to friends, the woman had gone to her boyfriend’s house to tell him the relationship was over.

“She went there to end it. That’s how he ended it,” a neighbor of the victim told authorities. “Jerk! He must have been real crazy.”

The suspect told a relative of his that he “lost it” and made a confession, according to police.
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The 36-year-old suspect called his ex-wife in Long Island after the murder occurred and told her his girlfriend was “probably dead” after he “hurt her” as they argued in his apartment one afternoon. The ex-wife made an immediate call to Suffolk County police, who called the NYPD. Police discovered the body of the slain woman upon arrival, according to a Suffolk County Criminal Lawyer.

The suspect was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation during a brief hearing after his arrest. He had been previously arrested for menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. He had nothing to say at that time.

A friend of the victim said the pair had only been dating a few months.
He said, “She told me he’s just not a good guy – a bad person.”

The family of the victim, including her father, gathered at the family home in the aftermath of the murder. They were attempting to console the victim’s 13-year-old daughter.

“She was a great girl, she had a beautiful daughter,” a relative who did not live with them said. The suspect has four children of his own. "He’s destroyed two families,” a relative said.

Often in a domestic violence case, there is more than one offense involved, such as a gun possession offense, sex crime, or drug possession offense. While the emotional scars from these offenses can never be erased, justice can be served.

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