A retired NYPD officer was sentenced to (PDF) ten years in jail for downloading videos of children being sexually abused. Matthew Fanning pleaded guilty last month to two counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child. In court yesterday, he learned more about the now 19-year-old woman who was raped in the videos as a child, in a harrowing statement read by an ADA: "Every day, somewhere, someone is taking pleasure in watching me being raped." more ›

Ex-con Benny Geritano has been charged with first-degree assault after violently stabbing Lucali's pizza owner Mark Iacono in broad daylight. But according to him, Iacono attacked him with a knife first. "I didn’t do anything, I’m the victim here," he told police. "He attacked me. You see my hands, you see my neck, you see my back." So now, Iacono has been charged with felony assault. more ›

Yesterday, a wake was held for two victims of last Saturday's Chinatown bus crash in the Bronx. Ock Thling Wong, 83, and his wife, May Ling Wong, had emigrated from China over 50 years ago; NY1 reports they had "many children and grandchildren, and were well-known in their community." His nurse said, "He's very nice. Both of them are very very nice. just the nicest people you can meet. And they're down to Earth. And it's such a tragedy for them—for the family." more ›

A cyclist who was critically injured after getting hit by a car in East Flatbush shortly after midnight on April 14th finally died on Sunday. Police have been unable to identify the victim, who was hit by a Toyota Camry on Linden Boulevard at the corner of Schenck Avenue. The 21-year old driver stayed at the scene and was not charged, but the NYPD has just released this sketch in hopes of identifying the cyclist. more ›

Investigators have released surveillance videos of a man they believe viciously attacked and possibly sexually assaulted a woman in a Midtown bar after she refused to dance with him. Cops are trying to track down the suspect, who allegedly followed a 30-year-old nurse into a bathroom early on Thursday, barged into the stall, and left her bloodied and unconscious with a fractured skull, a broken nose and a broken eye socket. more ›

For a victim of domestic abuse, harassment, rape or stalking filing an order of protection (aka restraining order) can be as simple as filling out a form, but actually ensuring that it does anything is another matter. Last year 262,327 orders of protection were issued in NY state. Some, like the one handed to former Sen. Hiram Monserrate, did the job, but statistics aren’t kept on how many failed to be successfully served. One that never did reach its recipient was obtained against David Johnson, a close aide to Gov. Paterson, whose domestic abuse has recently come to the light. Turns out recipients can easily avoid the orders of protection by simply not answering a knock on the door or, as in Johnson’s case, by being out of town. When a judge asked Johsnon’s alleged victim whether she had served him with the papers, she said: “No ma’am, he refused to. He avoided it.” more ›

A New Jersey woman has admitted she fabricated an allegation of rape against a man who's now serving a 20-year-sentence for the alleged assault. William McCaffrey, 31, was sentenced in 2006 after Biurny Peguero Gonzalez testified that he and two other men raped her at knife point in a van parked in Upper Manhattan in September 2005. But she now says she made the whole thing up, to cover for a fight with some of her women friends. Last year, new scientific developments enabled investigators to retest the DNA from bites on Gonzalez's arm; no "Y" chromosome was found, meaning the bites could not have come from a man. more ›

A paralyzed man who broke his neck in that 2003 Staten Island Ferry accident wants his lawyer to have a bigger share of his $18.3 million settlement. That's right: He wants to give his lawyer more money. James McMillan, who did not, apparently, suffer head trauma during the accident, appeared in court again yesterday to ask a magistrate to reverse another judge's ruling which reduced his lawyer's fee by almost $2.5 million. McMillan thinks his poor lawyer is entitled to a third of the money (which would be about $6.1 million), telling the Daily News, "I want him to have it. He worked for it. There's a hundred lawyers on TV saying, 'I'm the best,' but this man has walked with me through many things people wouldn't understand. He said, 'James I'm your lawyer' and I needed that comfort." It's unclear what kind of nefarious occult spell attorney Evan Torgan has cast over his client, but the judge who previously reduced his percentage was concerned that McMillan didn't understand the retainer he signed in his hospital bed just days after the crash. more ›

Police are searching for a man in his 30's who broke into a West Village apartment wielding a knife, only to be driven off by the occupant's furious response. The Post spoke to the resident, Jennifer LaPierre, a 41-year-old writer who lives in a basement apartment on West 11th Street. The article makes clear that when she's not pounding the keyboard, she likes to pump iron and work out at a nearby gym. more ›

After responding to a woman's 911 call about a domestic dispute with her son, the police fired between 13 and 20 times at the son, who claimed he had a gun. The gunfire killed 18-year-old Khiel Coppin and it turned out he was only holding a hairbrush. Coppin had been arguing with his mother in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, and when police arrived, came out to the window ledge, "screaming and acting irrationally," according to... more ›