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Apr 05, 2003 20:10

(04/05/03) LYNBROOK - Kellenberg High School English teacher and former Youth Ministry Director Matthew Maiello has been arrested on charges of rape and sodomy. Nassau police say a female victim came forward and described sexual abuse that began back in 2000 when she was only 15-years-old.

Police say she was the vitim of sexual sex crimes and also said she wasn't the only victim. According of police, as interviews progressed, she indicated there was a second victim, a male teenager.

Detectives say both victims were members of the Youth Ministry at St.Raphaels Church in East Meadow and they say that a short time after Maillo became the director of that youth program the series of sex crimes began.

Police say the incidents occured in the home of the defendant, in the home of the victims and at St.Raphaels Church.

A spokesperson for the dicoses of Rockville Centre tells News 12 Long Island that the parish is cooperating with the police investigation. Incidently, St. Raphaels is the same parish where Father Michael Hands was convicted for sodomizing a teenager.

http://www.news12.com/NewCDA/articles/article_detail/0,5942,%26rid%3D5%26region%3DLI%26tab%3Dtopstories%26id%3D54531,00.html
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