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‘Call Me Daddy' Creepy Church Leader, Soccer Coach Raped Girl Before Kidnapping Her To Mexico ‘Call Me Daddy' Creepy Church Leader, Soccer Coach Raped Girl Before Kidnapping Her To Mexico
‘Call Me Daddy' Creepy Church Leader, Soccer Coach Raped Girl Before Kidnapping Her To Mexico Kevin Esterly — the Pennsylvania man who ran off to Mexico with a teenage girl in 2018 — has now been convicted of repeatedly raping the same victim when she was a child, prosecutors announced on Wednesday, March 5. The disturbing allegations first emerged when the victim came forward to police in February 2025, saying Esterly had sexually abused her for years, beginning when she was a child. A jury convicted Esterly, now 53, of rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and endangering the welfare of children following a trial that began with jury selection on …

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by Jillian Pikora
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Ex-NY Fire Commish Who Forged Court Transcript To Regain Synagogue Status Jailed Ex-NY Fire Commish Who Forged Court Transcript To Regain Synagogue Status Jailed
Ex-NY Fire Commish Who Forged Court Transcript To Regain Synagogue Status Jailed A former Long Island fire commissioner at the center of a years-long controversy involving forged court records and false legal claims is now behind bars. Judah Karkowsky was taken into custody at the Nassau County jail Thursday, Jan. 29, after losing his appeal in New York’s Second Judicial Department, according to the nonprofit Za’Akah, which supports survivors of sexual violence in the Orthodox Jewish communit. Karkowsky was sentenced to one year in jail following a jury conviction for using a forged court transcript to falsely suggest a judge had dismissed prior charges against him on t…

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by Michael Mashburn
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'You're Stabbing Me?' Man Begged For Help As Ex's New Beau Murdered Him At NY Yacht Club: DA 'You're Stabbing Me?' Man Begged For Help As Ex's New Beau Murdered Him At NY Yacht Club: DA
'You're Stabbing Me?' Man Begged For Help As Ex's New Beau Murdered Him At NY Yacht Club: DA A North Carolina couple has been indicted in the brutal stabbing death of a man found in the parking lot of the Stony Brook Yacht Club earlier this month. Victor Panebianco, 32, and Kacy Corso, 33, both of King, North Carolina, were indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury for second-degree murder in the death of 52-year-old Christopher Millwater. Officers were called to the waterfront lot on Shore Road around 3:45 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 10, after a fisherman reported finding an unconscious man on the ground, according to Suffolk County Police. They found Millwater suffering from two stab wo…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Teen Shot At Party In Orange County Town: 18-Year-Old Caught In Separate Burglary, Cops Say Teen Shot At Party In Orange County Town: 18-Year-Old Caught In Separate Burglary, Cops Say
Teen Shot At Party In Orange County Town: 18-Year-Old Caught In Separate Burglary, Cops Say Police responded to two incidents involving teenagers in an Orange County town on the same day, including a shooting at a party and a burglary, authorities said.  The first incident happened early Tuesday morning, when officers responded to 260 Carter Ave. in the Town of Newburgh at around 12:20 a.m. for reports of shots fired and someone possibly wounded, according to the Town of Newburgh Police Department. When they arrived, police did not find a victim but saw around 50 people leaving what appeared to be a party.  Shortly afterward, the teen arrived at Montefiore St. Luke’s Ho…

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by Ben Crnic
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AI Brings Hudson Valley Man Back To Life For Impact Statement In Road Rage Sentencing: Report AI Brings Hudson Valley Man Back To Life For Impact Statement In Road Rage Sentencing: Report
AI Brings Hudson Valley Man Back To Life For Impact Statement In Road Rage Sentencing: Report Even though a New York native was fatally shot in a 2021 road rage incident in Arizona, that did not stop him from reading an impact statement during his killer's sentencing with the help of artificial intelligence. Dutchess County native Christopher Pelkey, who was born in Poughkeepsie, was killed at the age of 37 by Gabriel Paul Horcasitas in a confrontation in Chandler, Arizona in November 2021, according to a report by ABC15 Arizona.  Years later, during Horcasitas's sentencing proceedings for the killing on Thursday, May 1, Pelkey did the previously impossible—…

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by Ben Crnic
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Judge Blocks Return Of Man Wrongfully Deported To El Salvador By Trump Administration Judge Blocks Return Of Man Wrongfully Deported To El Salvador By Trump Administration
Judge Blocks Return Of Man Wrongfully Deported To El Salvador By Trump Administration A federal judge has overruled a lower court’s order requiring the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Maryland by midnight Monday. The temporary order was issued hours before Abrego Garcia was scheduled to be returned home after the former MS-13-affiliated man was mistakenly shipped to a notorious El Salvadoran detention center. Top officials admitted the deportation was a mistake, but they’ve dragged their feet in reuniting him with his wife and family in Maryland. Abrego Garcia had previously been granted withholding of removal by an immigration judge back in 2019…

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by Zak Failla