A convicted pedophile was arrested in Brooklyn for taking pictures of a 9-year-old girl. David Zimmer, 40, was arrested Jan. 2 in Borough Park for photographing the girl in the hallway of the building where they both live. But Zimmer's brother claims there was nothing wrong with the photos: “None of the pictures he took were inappropriate. My brother is a very kind, sweet person.” more ›

A former math teacher being sued in federal court for violating the rights of a student he slept with has come up with an interesting reason why he should not have to pay up. Julio Cesar Benavides, who is defending himself in court, says that he didn't violate the girl's rights and even if he did, he certainly didn't do it in his official capacity as a teacher, a charge at the heart of the complaint. The Post reports that Benavides recently wrote to the judge in the case to explain that in class he treated his then-14-year-old victim like "all the other students." more ›

David Harshorn, the 52-year-old Queens Little League coach charged with molesting three of his charges, doesn't just have a history of pursuing sex with minors. He also has a history as a campaign manager who uses minors for grunt work! Harshorn managed Alan Gerson's failed 2009 City Council bid and worked on Joe Fox's failed shot at unseating Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi. In both cases he used kids to hand out literature and it is unclear if a background check was performed in either case. Meanwhile, the Little League has begun its own investigation into how he got his coaching gig. more ›

It may have been created by a satirical website, but the guide to recognizing secretly sex addicted teachers was quite prescient today: a former middle school science teacher/foot fetishist, who falls in the "Dirty Demagogue" category, was caught having a 14-month affair with a 13-year-old student. more ›

An Arizona rabbi was cuffed in the parking lot of his synagogue, accused of raping a 7-year-old girl a decade ago in NYC. According to the victim, now 17, 45-year-old Bryan Bramly sexually assaulted her when she was spending the night at his family's home in 2000. At the time Bramly was finishing up his rabbinical studies, says the AP. She didn't report the incident until August 2009, but officials says they jumped on the case. more ›

Since everyone loves the online database that maps and gives rap sheets for rapists and pedophiles, the state of New York is taking it one step further. Now, you can sign up (at this website) to be contacted by text message, email, fax or phone when one of NY's high- or moderate-risk sex offenders moves within striking distance. (Then you can set special ring tones to go along with the notifications!) The sex-offender alerts are a new feature of the Emergency Management System, which also lets New Yorkers know about road closures, storms and—conveniently for the pedophiles—missing children, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. The AP says there are more than 30,000 registered sex offenders in the state. more ›

The Borough Park rabbi/travel agent accused in hundreds of incidents of sexual abuse was convicted yesterday of molesting a 16-year-old student. Baruch Lebovits could be sentenced to 32 years in jail, after being found guilty on eight counts. "I understand that there are a significant number of Jewish holidays coming up,” said the judge. “And I am sorry." The young victim testified that in 2004 Lebovits offered to let him drive his car, then unzipped his fly and performed oral sex on him. Among the rabbi’s other alleged victims is a young Hasidic man who committed suicide on his honeymoon, by jumping from the seventh story of a hotel. more ›

Former NYPD detective Brian Tuitt, who once tracked down pedophiles online, is doing time for molesting over half a dozen young girls. But that didn't stop Tuitt from trying to sue the city over the post-traumatic stress disorder he claims afflicts him because of the months he spent working at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attack. Tuitt says he wasn't properly diagnosed with PTSD until late 2008, while he was being held at Rikers Island, thus causing him to miss a three-year deadline to state his intention to sue for personal injuries. Getting busted for pedophilia does tend to disrupt one's life! But Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Eileen Rakower has ruled that a deadline's a deadline, and found no evidence that Tuit suffers from PTSD anyway. more ›

Undercover cops have nabbed another would-be pedophile who thought he was meeting a minor for a sexual rendezvous. This time the alleged perv is an executive for the Gristedes supermarket chain, 59-year-old Michael Seltzer. Investigators say Seltzer, the chain's treasurer, had been exchanging salacious online messages with the "teen" for about a year and was finally supposed to meet her for the first time on Tuesday for a sexual encounter in Douglaston. But the 14-year-old girl didn't actually exist, and Seltzer, using the irresistible screen name LOVE775419, had been communicating with undercover cops the entire time. He was arrested when he approached an undercover female officer, and police have seized computers at his home and at Gristedes' Manhattan headquarters. Seltzer is being charged with attempted rape and could face up to four years in prison, the Daily News reports. And back in 1999, Seltzer was arrested for attempting to bribe a tax warrant investigator in return for eliminating nearly $200,000 in outstanding City and State taxes owed by the supermarket chain. more ›

26-year-old Brighton Beach high school teacher Alexander Kravitz was arrested this week in a Queens hotel room, where prosecutors say he hoped to make a porn video with a 14-year-old girl to whom he'd been sending salacious instant messages and graphic live webcam video of himself. But the girl did not exist—Kravitz had been communicating with an undercover detective for the last six weeks. According to 1010 Wins, he could get four years in jail if convicted of several charges. After being released on $75,000 bail, Kravitz angrily cursed reporters outside his mother's Queens home, where he resides. It's also where detectives found his porno stash, which police say included images of sex with children ranging from in age from 13 to infants. Kravitz's mother Katherine told the Daily News, "I don't believe any of it. It has to be a mistake. I've never seen any young man work so hard. I don't see how he'd even have the time." more ›