An Oakdale woman has filed a lawsuit in Suffolk County alleging a police officer in the Fifth Precinct in Patchogue repeatedly sexually abused her when she was a teenager in a youth mentoring program. Newsday's Steve Langford reports.

 


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The state trial has been postponed until at least Dec. 10, a judge ordered on Monday.

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A Newsday review turned up half a dozen instances of unidentified remains found on LI in the early '90s — a period when the admitted serial killer began committing murders. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn hosts a discussion with Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney and Newsday criminal justice reporter Anthony DeStefano.

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