Case of the Lower East Side Ex-Convict Unnamed
Father
New York, NY
Ex-convict has been arrested after admitting that he
had sex with his 5-year-old daughter and later offered her up to another
man (Ariel
Berlin), who was a sexual partner of his.
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2005
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Ex-con arrested for having sex with 5-year-old daughter (07/29/2005)
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Man Charged With Raping 5-Year-Old Daughter (07/29/2005)
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5-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Raped By Father And Another Man (07/29/2005)
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Dad & pal molested girl, 5, cops say (07/29/2005)
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Five-Year-Old Allegedly Sexually Assaulted by Two Men (07/29/2005)
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Ex-con arrested for having sex with 5-year-old
daughter
By Lindsay Farber
New York Newsday, NY - July 29, 2005
A Lower East Side ex-convict has been arrested after
admitting that he had sex with his 5-year-old daughter and later offered
her up to another man, who was a sexual partner of his, police said.
"It's one of the sickest stories I have ever heard,"
a police source said.
The sordid odyssey of abuse surrounding the girl and
her 26-year-old father, whose name is being withheld by Newsday to protect
the child's identity, likely began long ago, but came to light after the
father invited the 72-year-old man to have sex with her, police said.
The two had been talking on a phone chat line. On July
14, the proposal to meet the daughter at the father's Avenue D apartment
was made, police said. The older man, Ariel Berlin, of the Upper West Side,
visited the father's apartment some days later.
Berlin, a retired travel agent originally from Israel,
accompanied the father and the daughter into a bedroom, where the father
said Berlin could have sex with her as long as he wore gloves and used a
condom, police said.
Berlin fondled the girl, police said. Berlin then said
the environment was something he was not interested in and left, police
said.
The story came to the attention of the authorities.
On July 20 or 21, Special Victims Unit cops interviewed Berlin, and he told
them the story, police said.
Police questioned the father on July 22, and he admitted
to having sex with his daughter several times and to offering her to Berlin,
the source said.
The father was charged with rape, sodomy, endangering
the welfare of a child and sex abuse, police said. He was arraigned and held
on $250,000 bail.
A police source said the mother of the child had been
living in Massachusetts.
Thursday, police charged Berlin with sex abuse and
acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17. He was awaiting arraignment
Thursday night.
Neighbors of Berlin, who lives at 250 W. 85th St.,
said he is a gentle man. "I don't think there's a bad bone in his body,"
said Ed Levitt, 55.
The investigation continues into the father, who served
time in 1999 on a drug-sale charge. The victim is in the custody of the father's
sister, police said.
Freelance writer Marlene Naanes contributed to this
story.
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Man Charged With Raping 5-Year-Old
Daughter
By Michelle O'Donnell
New York Times - July 29, 2005
A Manhattan man raped his 5-year-old daughter and then
offered her to another man he had met on a telephone chat line, who then
joined him in sexually abusing the girl this month, the police said
yesterday.
The police arrested the father, a 26-year-old man who
lives in the East Village, last Friday and charged him with rape, sodomy,
sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor. He was arraigned on
Saturday and ordered held in $250,000 bail, the police said. His identity
was not released by the authorities in order to conceal the identity of his
daughter.
Yesterday, the police arrested the second man, whom
they identified as Ariel Berlin, 72, a retired travel agent who lives on
the Upper West Side. He was charged with sexual abuse and acting in a manner
injurious to a child.
Acting on tips, the police interviewed Mr. Berlin on
July 21. They said he told them that the two men had spoken over the chat
line on July 14 and had set up a sexual tryst at the father's apartment on
Avenue D. That encounter did not include the girl, the police said.
Days later, however, the two men spoke on the chat
line again. The 26-year-old man told Mr. Berlin that he had a 5-year-old
girl with him and invited Mr. Berlin over for sex with him and the girl,
the police said.
At the apartment, the father greeted Mr. Berlin dressed
in woman's clothing and holding the hand of the girl, who was unclothed,
the police said. The men took the girl into a bedroom, where she was molested,
the police said.
At Mr. Berlin's apartment building on West 85th Street
yesterday, neighbors said they were shocked to hear of the charges against
him. They said he had lived in a top-floor apartment of the 16-story building
for about 40 years.
Ed Levitt, who also lives on the 16th floor, said Mr.
Berlin was "unkempt and always carried a briefcase."
Another neighbor, who said she knew Mr. Berlin from
years of short conversations in the elevator, said he collected sheet music
of popular standards. She said she could not believe the accusation.
"Just the offer would upset him, said the woman, who
would not give her name. "He's not a smarmy old guy. He has a courtly manner.
This would make no sense to me."
Janon Fisher and Kareem Fahim contributed reporting
for this article.
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5-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Raped By Father And Another
Man
NY1 - July 29, 2005
Two men are charged with raping a 5-year-old girl in
Manhattan, one of them the little girl's father.
Police say the father, whose name is being withheld
by authorities, and 72-year-old Ariel Berlin met in an online chat room.
According to investigators, the father asked Berlin to come to his Avenue
D apartment to have sex with him and his daughter.
Officials say both men abused the little girl.
The father was arrested last week and Berlin was taken
in on Thursday.
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By Kerry Burke, Carrie Melago and Leo Standora
New York Daily News - July 29, 2005
A cross-dressing Manhattan father and an elderly pervert he met on a telephone
chat line sexually assaulted the younger man's 5-year-old daughter, police
said.
Detectives said the dad offered his little girl to Ariel Berlin, 72, of W.
85th St., a few days after the two men had sex with each other. "I have my
5-year-old daughter," police sources quoted the father as telling Berlin.
"Would you like to come down and play with her, too?"
The assault on the child occurred last week in the 26-year-old father's apartment
on Avenue D, cops said.
The father, whose name wasn't released to protect his daughter's identity,
has been in custody for a week, charged with raping and sodomizing his child.
He is being held on $250,000 bail.
Berlin was arrested yesterday on charges of sex abuse and acting in a manner
injurious to a child.
Special Victims Unit cops got wind of the alleged crime - they wouldn't say
how - and questioned Berlin last week. They said he told them that when he
arrived at the victim's apartment, the father answered the door clad in women's
clothes and holding his daughter's hand.
Berlin said he fondled the little girl as the father watched, investigators
said.
When the father was questioned Friday, investigators said he corroborated
Berlin's story and admitted raping and sodomizing his daughter in the past.
Police said the girl, whose mother is in Massachusetts, is in the custody
of a paternal aunt who lives in the city.
"I'm shocked, totally shocked," said Berlin's neighbor Ed Levitt, 55. "He's
a bit of a schlump but a real sweetheart, a nice old guy."
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New York-WABC - July 29, 2005
Two men are under arrest and accused of sexually assaulting
a five-year-old girl.
Police say a 26-year-old man met 72-year-old Ariel
Berlin in an internet chat room.
The 26-year-old later invited berlin to his lower east
side apartment to have sex with a five-year-old girl..
The younger suspect's name is not being released to
protect the identity of the victim.
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