Nassau County police has arrested a 23-year-old female teacher for an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student. According to the police, Kaitlin Grant was charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual act and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child. The earth science and math substitute teacher reportedly met the teen while teaching at Freeport High School. more ›

For the fifth time in the last month, a city school worker has been charged with sexually molesting children in school. Brett Picou, a 30-year-old art teacher at Public School 52 in Queens, has been accused of sexually abusing six 9- and 10-year-old girls at the school. Picou is awaiting arraignment on seven felony counts of sexual abuse, one felony count of repeated sexual abuse of a child and seven misdemeanor counts of forcible touching. One of the alleged 9-year-old victims described his behavior to NBC: "He was touching my ears like this, and tickling me in my neck. He's always saying, 'Oh, do you miss me? 'Cause if you didn't miss me, you would have hugged me.'" more ›

After a flood of alleged sexual abuse in New York City Public Schools (see here, here and here) Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is working fast to try and control the damage. Earlier this week he promised parents at P.S. 87 that he would be reviewing screening procedures for school employees and today he is sending out a letter to parents announcing just that. more ›

For the third time in as many weeks, a New York City public school employee has been accused of sexually abusing his charges. Police today arrested 49-year-old P.S. 174 computer teacher Wilbert Cortez, 49, and charged him with second-degree sexual misconduct against a child and acting in a manner to injure a child under 17. more ›

No wonder Mayor Bloomberg's response to a teacher's aide possibly sexually abusing students in a Brooklyn public school was to essentially say "deal with it." PS 243's Taleek Brooks wasn't the only teacher's aide with boy troubles this week. Turns out a teacher's aide at the very well-regarded Upper West Side school PS 87 has also been accused of sexually abusing his charges. more ›

You'll recall that in 2002, the Catholic Church was deeply shaken (and continues to be) with numerous accounts of the sexual abuse of minors by priests. At the time, the Archbishop of New York and former bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Cardinal Edward Egan, apologized for what happened. Now retired, Cardinal Egan recently gave an interview to Connecticut Magazine, rescinding the apology. "First of all, I should never have said that. I did say if we did anything wrong, I’m sorry, but I don’t think we did anything wrong." more ›

Charles Oross, a 44-year-old teacher at IS 238 in Queens, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in a lengthy sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student when she attended his school [PDF]. According to the student's statements, the pair met regularly with Oross between January and May 2009 in his classroom for 6 a.m. hook up sessions that included "oral sex and physical touching" before having sex for the first time in June 2009. Oross is charged with rape, criminal sexual act and endangering the welfare of a child. more ›

Police are seeking the public's help in finding a man is suspected of sexually abusing 12-year-old girls in Queens. According to cops, he has been luring girls to his car in the Elmhurst section. more ›

A longtime assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University has been placed on administration leave after being accused of molesting two former ball boys. Bobby Davis, 39, said that coach Bernie Fine, who has coached at Syracuse for 35 years, molested him “hundreds of times” over a ten-year period, beginning in 1983, when he was entering seventh grade. The second alleged victim, Mike Lang, now 45, is Davis' stepbrother, and was also a ball boy for several years—he claims Fine started molesting him in fifth or sixth grade. more ›

As more and more twisted details about the Penn State scandal and former coach Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual abuse of children comes to light, it seems as though there's no end to this horrible story. Moreover, there doesn't seem to be any appropriate way to be humorous about this scandal—but that didn't stop South Park from hilariously ripping the whole thing last night with a seemingly endless slew of purposefully terrible jokes about the terrible subject (as well as a hefty dose of self-awareness). Watch a supercut (via SB Nation) of all the Penn State-related jokes below: more ›

Whatever Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach charged with sexually abusing a string of young boys, was hoping to get from his much-maligned interview with Bob Costas earlier this week it doesn't seem to be working. His claims that sexual misconduct was just "horseplay" has reportedly emboldened a number of other alleged victims to come forward while firming the resolve of those who already spoke out. Meanwhile, more questions are being asked about Mike McQueary, the assistant coach currently on paid leave whose testimony against Sandusky is key to the case. For instance? Turns out McQueary went to a fundraiser for Sandusky's charity a year after he says he saw him raping a 10-year-old in the Penn State showers. more ›

[Update below] A man who has been linked to two sexual assault charges in Zuccotti Park has been arrested. 26-year-old Tonye Iketubosin of Crown Heights allegedly raped an 18-year-old woman from Massachusetts early Saturday morning, and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old woman on October 25th. According to the Wall Street Journal, he has been charged with third-degree sexual abuse, and the DA's office states that charges related to the alleged rape are "pending." more ›

The high-ranking Department of Education official who was arrested in the winter and accused of sexually torturing his wife with hammers, nails and hangers has been found guilty of sexually abusing and assaulting his wife. Official Laurence Harvey, who previously made $165,000-a-year from his DOE gig, was not found guilty of raping his wife. more ›

A deaf woman is suing a Bronx hospital, claiming that a nurse's aide inappropriately touched her under the guise of giving her a sponge bath. "When I see an ambulance with the hospital's name on it, it shakes me. I don't know when I will ever be comfortable staying overnight in a hospital," the woman says in the complaint. more ›

A 65-year-old New Jersey man today was sentenced to a year in federal prison for molesting a sleeping woman on a flight to the States from Hong Kong. Between pissing skiers and groping geezers (not to mention the TSA) our skies really don't seem that friendly these days! more ›

"Touching students and whispering in their ear are acceptable practices to maintain order in the library," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez ruled yesterday. And with that former Stuyvesant High School librarian Christopher Asch was vindicated after years of being stigmatized as a pervert. In 2009 the openly gay Asch had been sent to the rubber room after a student claimed he had inappropriately touched him. more ›

A 42-year-old female special-ed teacher in Queens yesterday pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court to the third-degree rape of a 15-year-old boy. As punishment, in addition to surrendering her teaching license and registering as a sex offender, the teacher, Christine Williams, is expected to be sentenced to 90 days in jail and ten years probation in July. Williams had sex with the boy (who was not her student) at least twice last year in her Jamaica, Queens, home. more ›

It's never a good thing when a young witness identifies a photo as, "Uncle Joe, bad person." Joseph Passof, the head counselor at the Flatbush Park Day Camp, is accused of molesting a 5-year-old boy in the bathroom at summer camp last summer. He was arrested Wednesday and pleaded not guilty yesterday, and lawyer Jay Cohen says that diabetes and high blood pressure has rendered Passof impotent. more ›

Earlier today Trent Young, a 42-year-old former NYPD officer, was sentenced to 262 months in jail for transporting three different minors across state lines for illegal sexual activity. It is highly unlikely that Young will get a chance to serve his nearly 22 years in jail though—his sentence was delivered to him at the prison ward of the Westchester Medical Center where he is currently being treated for a cancer that the FBI refers to as terminal. more ›

Prosecutors want bail for banker Daniel Brown upped from $300,000 to $700,000 after police found a stash of cocaine in a safe in his apartment. Cops were in Brown's home looking for evidence in a gruesome sexual assault case brought forth by a 25-year-old ex-girlfriend who alleges that, among other things, he attacked her with a lacrosse stick while shouting "you ruined my Thursday night!" The young woman also claims over the course of their relationship he "punched her in bed, smashed her face into a mirror and rammed his fist down her throat to make her throw up." more ›

The parents of a 6-year-old autistic boy enrolled at PS 168 in Mott Haven are suing the school for not keeping track of an 11-year-old boy who was caught abusing and sodomizing their son in the school bathroom. On November 2nd another student caught the two in the school bathroom "and the victim cried out," according to lawyer Richard Sules. He told the Post, "My client’s non-verbal and autistic. His mother was telling me he was getting on the bus every day with this kid. He cried every day when he got on the bus, but she didn’t know why." more ›

Last week, Emmy Award-winning Fox 5 reporter Charles Leaf was arrested for aggravated sexual assault for allegedly sexually abusing a 4-year-old in his Wyckoff, NJ home. The Daily News spoke to one of his sisters, who claims he's abused little girls before, "I'd like to see them put him away for the rest of his life. I am so full of rage. If I had the opportunity to spit in his face and hurt him, I would do it." more ›

Yesterday, Daniel Barricella was arraigned on charges of public lewdness, sexual abuse and harassment after a Brooklyn Tech student snapped a shot of him exposing himself and grinding against her on the N train. And though Assistant District Attorney Alex Fisch tried to use the photo as evidence, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Kevin McGrath was apparently ready to take him at his word, saying, "I don’t want to see that." Good to know our legal system is bypassing reviewing evidence because penises are icky. more ›

A man was arrested and charged with sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child, and attempted petit larceny after allegedly assaulting a 6-year-old at the M&M's World store in Times Square. The Post reports, "Ismael Jimenez, 22, was standing behind the 35-year-old dad, whose daughter was propped on his shoulders, as they rode the escalator in the mega-store on Broadway at West 49th Street at 4:15 p.m. Monday, sources said. Suddenly, Jimenez kissed the kid on her thigh, sources said." Naturally, the dad freaked out and security called the cops. more ›

From the NY Post's NYPD Daily Blotter: "A shirtless creep was nabbed in Midtown after allegedly groping a number of women -- and a 9-year-old girl. Dennis Perry, 32, was wearing mesh shorts and no underwear when he began following female passers-by on Seventh Avenue between 32nd and 42nd streets at 1:35 p.m. Tuesday, cops said." He was charged with four counts of sexual abuse as well as forcible touching. more ›

Yesterday, a convicted sex offender who admitted to having unprotected sex with boys and men ages 16 to 20—while not telling them he had HIV—was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Oceanside resident Robert Musmacker, who knew he was HIV positive since 2005, had pleaded guilty to 25 charges, including reckless endangerment, criminal sex acts and endangering the welfare of a child, and was also sentenced to 15 years of post-release supervision. more ›

A Long Island pediatrician and civil surgeon has been arrested and charged with producing after child pornography after admitting to videotaping female patients—some as young as 11. After a raid on his office, police uncovered at least five videotapes of Dr. Rakesh Punn fondling patients, some of whom were blindfolded and naked. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said in a statement, "He victimized these trusting, young girls in the worse way imaginable." Investigators also believe Punn may have drugged some of his patients. more ›