RaVen Blackehart
February 21st, 2009, 06:56 PM
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A convicted sex offender linked to the notorious case of a girl who was kidnapped and hidden in a dungeon more than a decade ago collapsed and died Saturday at a jail after refusing medical treatment, officials said.
Sal Inghilleri, 55, collapsed at a jail in Riverhead but refused treatment, the Suffolk County sheriff's office told Newsday. Emergency workers revived Inghilleri, who was later pronounced dead at Peconic Bay Medical Center.
The medical examiner will determine a cause of death.
Inghilleri was convicted of two counts of sexual abuse and served 12 years for molesting Katie Beers, who at the age of 9 was kidnapped and stashed in a dungeon for 16 days in 1991 at a Long Island home by John Esposito. During the investigation into the kidnapping, authorities discovered that Inghilleri had sexually abused the girl before she was abducted.
Inghilleri was paroled in 2006 but was arrested again and faced federal charges of violating the rules of his release by failing to notify authorities that he had moved from his Bay Shore home. He had been held on bail in the Riverhead jail since October 2007.
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The last time Cathy Rossi saw Katie Beers was at 10:30 on a chilly October night in 1991. The 8-year-old girl had come over on her own to her neighbor's house to bid a tearful farewell.
A bank had foreclosed on the Beers family home here, in a tight-knit suburban neighborhood of split-level ranch homes and manicured lawns. Katie, who had already endured neglect, poverty and family fights, was being uprooted once again.
And on that cold night, the little girl, jacketless and shivering, wanted just one thing.
"I couldn't believe that she had come over alone that late," said Mrs. Rossi. "I tried to send her right back home. But she insisted she had to give me a hug and a kiss before she left."
Katie disappeared almost two weeks ago, two days before her 10th birthday, after a family friend said he had gone with her to a video arcade in Nesconset. The police do not know what happened to her and are looking for clues in her troubled past and difficult family situation, including the tug of war for custody between her mother and godmother and charges that the godmother's husband had sexually abused the girl.
Whatever the circumstances of her disappearance, interviews with friends, neighbors and county officials make one thing clear: Katie, kind and bright and hungry for affection, had already had far more than 10 years' worth of trouble in her life.
People who knew her said Katie frequently skipped school and often wandered the streets alone early in the morning and late at night. Children in one neighborhood where she lived would tease her, calling her "Dirty Katie" and "Roach Girl," because of the squalid condition of her home.
And as she moved from home to home in the last year, Katie's life veered from the poverty of her mother's apartment in Mastic Beach, where Katie, her mother and grandmother shared a bedroom, to the middle-class comfort of the home in Bay Shore where she lived with her godmother, Linda Inghilleri, and her husband, Sal. There she had her own bedroom, Barbie dolls, stuffed bunnies and a play vanity. But the authorities have also accused Sal Inghilleri of sexually abusing her.
The case has wrenched the hearts of Long Island parents, who have seen the pictures of the cute blond girl with rosy cheeks and a shy smile. Across the Island, it has frightened children, who have followed the story daily on television.
The public's concerns were heightened by the apparent inability of county social-service workers to help Katie, even though they had closely watched the family and knew that the girl was in a difficult situation. She Wasn't Ready
Marilyn Beers, 43 years old, admitted recently she was not prepared to raise a child on her own when she gave birth to Katherine Marie Beers. The father, whom she has refused to identify publicly, was "out of the picture," she said. Her first child, John, born six years earlier, had been raised by Miss Beers's parents, but her father had died and her mother was too old to resume such a burden.
There was not even anyone to drive Miss Beers home from the hospital, and she and her newborn girl had to take a cab, Miss Beers recalled. When she got to the house, where she herself had grown up, it had almost no baby supplies, and Miss Beers, an unemployed taxi driver, had no money to buy them. Her neighbor, Mrs. Rossi, remembered bringing over a used cradle and some old baby clothes. continued
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A convicted sex offender linked to the notorious case of a girl who was kidnapped and hidden in a dungeon more than a decade ago collapsed and died Saturday at a jail after refusing medical treatment, officials said.
Sal Inghilleri, 55, collapsed at a jail in Riverhead but refused treatment, the Suffolk County sheriff's office told Newsday. Emergency workers revived Inghilleri, who was later pronounced dead at Peconic Bay Medical Center.
The medical examiner will determine a cause of death.
Inghilleri was convicted of two counts of sexual abuse and served 12 years for molesting Katie Beers, who at the age of 9 was kidnapped and stashed in a dungeon for 16 days in 1991 at a Long Island home by John Esposito. During the investigation into the kidnapping, authorities discovered that Inghilleri had sexually abused the girl before she was abducted.
Inghilleri was paroled in 2006 but was arrested again and faced federal charges of violating the rules of his release by failing to notify authorities that he had moved from his Bay Shore home. He had been held on bail in the Riverhead jail since October 2007.
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http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/586167.html
The last time Cathy Rossi saw Katie Beers was at 10:30 on a chilly October night in 1991. The 8-year-old girl had come over on her own to her neighbor's house to bid a tearful farewell.
A bank had foreclosed on the Beers family home here, in a tight-knit suburban neighborhood of split-level ranch homes and manicured lawns. Katie, who had already endured neglect, poverty and family fights, was being uprooted once again.
And on that cold night, the little girl, jacketless and shivering, wanted just one thing.
"I couldn't believe that she had come over alone that late," said Mrs. Rossi. "I tried to send her right back home. But she insisted she had to give me a hug and a kiss before she left."
Katie disappeared almost two weeks ago, two days before her 10th birthday, after a family friend said he had gone with her to a video arcade in Nesconset. The police do not know what happened to her and are looking for clues in her troubled past and difficult family situation, including the tug of war for custody between her mother and godmother and charges that the godmother's husband had sexually abused the girl.
Whatever the circumstances of her disappearance, interviews with friends, neighbors and county officials make one thing clear: Katie, kind and bright and hungry for affection, had already had far more than 10 years' worth of trouble in her life.
People who knew her said Katie frequently skipped school and often wandered the streets alone early in the morning and late at night. Children in one neighborhood where she lived would tease her, calling her "Dirty Katie" and "Roach Girl," because of the squalid condition of her home.
And as she moved from home to home in the last year, Katie's life veered from the poverty of her mother's apartment in Mastic Beach, where Katie, her mother and grandmother shared a bedroom, to the middle-class comfort of the home in Bay Shore where she lived with her godmother, Linda Inghilleri, and her husband, Sal. There she had her own bedroom, Barbie dolls, stuffed bunnies and a play vanity. But the authorities have also accused Sal Inghilleri of sexually abusing her.
The case has wrenched the hearts of Long Island parents, who have seen the pictures of the cute blond girl with rosy cheeks and a shy smile. Across the Island, it has frightened children, who have followed the story daily on television.
The public's concerns were heightened by the apparent inability of county social-service workers to help Katie, even though they had closely watched the family and knew that the girl was in a difficult situation. She Wasn't Ready
Marilyn Beers, 43 years old, admitted recently she was not prepared to raise a child on her own when she gave birth to Katherine Marie Beers. The father, whom she has refused to identify publicly, was "out of the picture," she said. Her first child, John, born six years earlier, had been raised by Miss Beers's parents, but her father had died and her mother was too old to resume such a burden.
There was not even anyone to drive Miss Beers home from the hospital, and she and her newborn girl had to take a cab, Miss Beers recalled. When she got to the house, where she herself had grown up, it had almost no baby supplies, and Miss Beers, an unemployed taxi driver, had no money to buy them. Her neighbor, Mrs. Rossi, remembered bringing over a used cradle and some old baby clothes. continued
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