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charges after conviction in Manassas abuse case
BY JOSHWHITE Former Manassas teacher
Kevin Ricks was released from the Prince William County jail Monday, and U.S. marshals im- mediately took him into custody to face federal charges connected tomore than 30 years of suspect- ed sexual abuse. The move was timed to coin-
cide with the end of Ricks’s year-long jail sentence for mo- lesting a 16-year-old boywho had
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GERALD MARTINEAU FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Muddy water bubbles up from a broken main onMassey Drive near theMassey Building in Fairfax, home to county government offices.
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age of $370 a month. The outcome of the council’s
vote appears certain. “It’s going to stayontrack as it is,” saidDoxieA. McCoy, spokeswoman forMayor- elect Vincent C. Gray (D), now in his final days as council chair- man. “Chairman Gray has said repeatedly the cuts would be painful, and everything had to be on the table. I would say this is a motivator and a way of breaking the cycle of dependency.” In1996,President BillClinton’s
welfare reformactimposedafive- year limit on federal payments to welfare participants, but it let states keep using federal funds to pay benefits for some of their long-term recipients, saidLaDon- na Pavetti of the nonprofit re- search CenteronBudgetandPoli- cy Priorities. Some states, as well as the District, have used their
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own dollars to pay for other long- term welfare recipients. The council’s measure, which
won preliminary approval this month, would gradually elimi- nate payments to long-term wel- fare recipients, starting with a 40 percent reduction of monthly benefits by October. By 2014, the five-year limit would be absolute. Critics say the council’s mea-
sure has been cobbled together too quickly and could flood the foster-care system and homeless shelters with families and chil- dren. “Tobedoingthisnow,whenthe
Trustee Sale Notices
856 Frederick County CIRCUIT COURT
Frederick,MD21701 (301) 694-1976
vs. KATHERINE PBROWN
Case Number:10-C-10-002569 F Lender License Number:7112 NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby issued by Circuit Court for Frederick County this 22ND day ofNOVEMBER,2010, that the sale made and recorded by John S. Burson, et al. for the sale of the property described in these proceedings 9505 KNIGHTS WALK LN,CONDO UNIT:9505, FREDER- ICK,MD21704 be ratified and con- firmed thirty (30) days from the date of this Notice,unless cause to the contrary be shown, pro- vided acopy of this Notice be inserted in some newspaper pub- lished in this County,once in each of three (3) successive weeks.
The report states the amount of the sale to be $287,500.00.
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Frederick County
SandraK.Dalton
Clerk of the Circuit Court 100West Patrick Street Courthouse
FOR FREDERICK COUNTY SandraK.Dalton
CIRCUIT COURT
Frederick,MD21701 (301) 694-1976
JOHN S.BURSON vs. ELBYYFIALLOS
Case Number:10-C-08-004004 F Lender License Number:N/A NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby issued by Circuit Court for Frederick County this 22ND day ofNOVEMBER,2010, that the sale made and recorded by John S. Burson, et al. for the sale of the property described in these proceedings 42 VIENNA CT,FRED- ERICK, MD 21701 be ratified and confirmed thirty (30) days from the date of this Notice,unless cause to the contrary be shown, provided acopy of this Notice be inserted in some newspaper pub- lished in this County,once in each of three (3) successive weeks.
The report states the amount of the sale to be $74,600.00.
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when most people are sleeping, someone in Northwest Washing- ton saw something that seemed unusual and called 911, the D.C. police said. That call led to the arrest on
burglary charges of four people in the quiet and affluent Spring Val- ley neighborhood, police said. Authorities said matters began
when “an alert citizen” saw “sus- picious persons” about 2:30 a.m.
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effects of the recession are still at their height, is unfortunate, and to be doing it in such a hurried way is not thoughtful,” said Peter Edelman,aGeorgetownUniversi- ty law school professor who is a leader of the health and human servicescommittee ofGray’smay- oral transition team. Ed Lazere, executive director
of the nonprofitD.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, said advocates are lob- bying the council to soften the cuts. “Many families reaching time limits simply fall further behind rather than landing a job,” he said. Andmany longtime welfare re-
cipients are ill-equipped to find work.
With no job, five children and a boyfriend who is an unemployed former drug dealer just back from prison, Diane Greenfield has grown accustomed to life on the welfare roll. For a total of seven years, Greenfield — a former tempatadowntownlawfirmwho has struggled with pot and PCP addictions — has been receiving city welfare checks. The 28-year-old says her assis-
tance from the D.C. government —$540amonthin cash plus$850 in food stamps — is just enough for diapers, deodorant and other necessities. “Are they going to guarantee
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me a job to raisemy kids?” asked Greenfield, who lives in an apart- ment in Southeast Washington operated by the nonprofit Com- munity of Hope for those who have struggled with drug addic- tion. “If they don’t, then it’s going to be, ‘Are they going to take away my kids?’ It’s scary. If they cut me off, how am I supposed to get Pampers, shoes and socks for my babies?” In the red-brick Community of
Hope apartment building on Sec- ond Street offMartin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, apartment doors are covered with brightly colored Christmas wrapping. Three nights a week, residents head to the basement for group classeson their psychological issues and drug addictions — spirited dis- cussions interrupted every so of- ten by yelping children in the hallway. The council’s proposal angers
many of the long-term welfare recipients. If the city stops paying them, they say, then the city had better find them work. Some con- fess they have been complacent about applying for jobs over the years, but they also say that the city’s job preparation programs have been useless. “Sometimes, I feel unmotivat-
ed about getting a job,” said La- Tanya Stuckey, whose last full- time positionwasearlier this year as an ice cream scooper at aBen& Jerry’s. “But when you get in a job-training class all day long, all you do is listen to how you should dress. But a lot of people don’t have no dress-up clothes. I don’t have no dress-up clothes. That’s why I don’t go to funerals.” Stuckey, who dropped out of
high school her senior year, thinks there are many reasons why she’s mired in this economy. She doesn’t get the support she wants from the three fathers of her four children. And although she loves her children, she said they came too early in her life. “I didn’t have the money for an
abortion, but then, I always thought a child deserved to live,” she said. “With my third child, I went to the abortion clinic, but left. With my children, I have no regrets. The only regret I do have is that I wish I was determined in
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been a student of his at Osbourn High School in Manassas. Au- thorities have viewed that case as the beginning of a series of prosecutions against Ricks, who has been linked to abuse cases in North Carolina, Virginia, Mary- land and in Japan, where he taught English for seven years. The first federal charges
against Ricks emerged from evi- dence that police found on his laptop computer and in his Fed- eralsburg, Md., home after he was arrested in the Manassas case in February. Ricks is charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria with possession and transportation of child pornog- raphy, offenses that together car-
ry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, prosecutors said Monday. He also has been charged in
North Carolina and in Maryland on sex abuse charges that could yield sentences ofmore than 100 years. A Washington Post investiga-
tion has found more than a dozen boys who knew Ricks as a teacher, tutor, camp counselor, foreign exchange host and scout leader and thought they were victimized or targeted. In interviews, the boys said
Ricks got them drunk on tequila and abused them after they had passed out.Ricks kept thousands of videos, photographs and jour-
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nals that detailed the abuse and his obsessive relationships with teenage boys. The investigation also re-
vealed how Ricks was able to move fromteaching job to teach- ing job, in some cases drawing suspicion but never a permanent mark on his record. He began teaching in Manassas in 2007 after leaving jobs in Baltimore, Caroline County, Md., and Dan- ville, Va. Federal authorities plan to
charge Ricks with more crimes, and local police and FBI agents have been working to identify and interview possible victims across the country and overseas. Ricks, 50, made a five-minute
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2010 LOCAL DIGEST VIRGINIA
appearance in Alexandria on Monday afternoon, telling Mag- istrate Judge John F. Anderson that he could not afford a lawyer. Anderson told Ricks that he
faces “very serious charges” and ordered him held in federal cus- tody. Ricks is scheduled to ap- pear before Anderson on Wednesday afternoon for a prob- able cause hearing. Because Ricks pleaded guilty
and was convicted in Prince William County, he has been listed as a sex offender and will not be able to teach again, re- gardless of the outcome of the federal cases.
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Man, 19, found shot to death near home A 19-year-old man was found
fatally shot in a Fairfax County park Sunday afternoon about a block from his home, and police are investigating the case as the county’s 16th homicide of the year. Police identified the victim
Monday as Jahed Ahmad Babi, who lived with his family in the 5800 block of Parakeet Drive in the Burke area. Parakeet Drive ends at the entrance to Silas Burke Park, where Babi was found. A passerby spotted Babi about
12:15 p.m. Sunday, Officer Don Gotthardt said. Police have no suspects, but Gotthardt said in- vestigators “believe it to be an isolated incident” and do not think Babi was randomly target- ed. He declined to elaborate and said he did not know any of the details of the homicide. Two sources familiar with the case said Babi had been shot. Babi’s family declined to com-
ment Monday. Babi attended but did not graduate from Lake Brad- dock Secondary School, Fairfax school officials said. Officials were checking where Babi com- pleted high school.
—Tom Jackman
Judge denies bond in killing of toddler The Fairfax County woman ac-
cused of hurling her 2-year-old granddaughter off a Tysons Cor- ner walkway to her death was denied bondMonday morning in a hearing in Fairfax juvenile court.
Carmela Dela Rosa, 50, who
lived just outside Fairfax City on Ellenwood Drive, has been in the Fairfax County jail sinceNov. 29. On that night, with her hus-
band and 22-year-old daughter in front of her as they walked on a fifth-floor bridge from the Tysons mall toward the parking lot, Dela Rosa is alleged to have scooped up Angelyn Ogdoc and dropped her over the railing. The incident was captured on surveillance vid- eo, officials familiar with the case said.
Angelyn fell about 50 feet and
survived for about nine hours. After she died, her grandmother was charged with murder. Dela Rosa’s preliminary hear- ing is set for Jan. 4.
my career and education.” Another reason she finds her-
self out of work: She’s picky. “I won’t take a job because TANF wants me to get off TANF,” she said. “I just don’t want to work at McDonald’s. I need something that has a benefits package and that’s going to helpmein the long run.” Other welfare veterans are
more active in hunting for work. Katrina Peterson, 36, Joy’s
classmate at Pilgrim, has been on welfare for about seven years.Her last job was in 2003, working as a program assistant at the North- east Performing Arts Group, but she quit because she didn’t have day care. The city gives her money to
support her four children, but “being on TANF gets depressing,” saidPeterson,whois taking class- es at theUniversity of the District of Columbia to become a home health-care aide. At the Community of Hope
apartments, Stuckey and Green- field are trying to find work be- fore the government hacks away at their benefits. Greenfield is networking to find a security guard job in the D.C. school sys- tem, and Stuckey is applying for a security job at a group home for juveniles. For Navida Joy, who’s applied
for jobs at CVS, Safeway and Gi- ant, the long wait for a job might be over soon, but only because of strange luck. The other day, her used Mitsubishi was towed. Whenshewentto retrieve her car, she learned she had $500 in fines. “I told the towing guy I had no
money, and he was like, ‘Bring in your resume, and we’ll see what we can do,’ ” Joy said. “So, I might be a towing dispatcher.”
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4 charged with burglarizing Northwest home
near Rodman Street and Corey Place, northwest of the American University campus. The police appeared and began
looking around. They said they saw people in a vehicle who seemed to fit the description they had been given. They said they also sawsomeone leaving a house in the 3800 block of 47th Street NW. Five people ran, police said. Officers picked up four. After police discovered that the
house on 47th Street had been burglarized, police said, they ar- rested the four on a burglary
charge. Police said items from the alleged burglary were recovered. A woman living on 47th Street
said she heard that someone in the burglarized house had con- fronted the intruder, then called police to give a report. Police identified those arrested
as Rico Carr, 21, of the unit block of Q Street NW; Andre Dicks, 19, of the 3400 block of Stanton Road SE; and Andre Reid, 20 of the 5700 block of Sixth Street NW. The fourth person was identified as a 17-year-old fromNorthwest.
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MARYLAND
Driver hit 18 cars in Frederick, police say A reckless driver was on the
loose early Monday morning in Frederick, police said, smashing into 18 parked cars, a tree and a traffic sign before crashing into a fence. Nobody was injured, according
to police. Frederick police found the
banged-up vehicle with the driver inside about 2:20 a.m. behind the Allegheny Power site near East Church Street and Pine Avenue. Cars were hit on West Fourth
Street, Dill Avenue and Fifth Street. Twogates to the perimeter fence at Allegheny Power were also damaged. Austina M. Biggus, 34, ofWalk-
ersville was arrested and charged with hit-and-run, driving under the influence and driving while intoxicated.
—Allison Klein
Defense, EPA sign deal on cleanup site Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin
(D-Md.) says a legally binding agreement has been signed be- tween the Defense Department and the Environmental Protec- tion Agency to govern cleanup of a contaminated site at Fort De- trick inMaryland. The agreement announced Fri-
day will allow work to begin on cleaning up the Superfund site. Since 1991, groundwater has
been found to be contaminated beneath about400acres used as a disposal site at Fort Detrick. Test wells have detected the cancer- causing solvent trichloroethylene and the suspected carcinogen te- trachloroethylene. The Army had resisted the
EPA’s proposal to add the site to the national priorities list, which is known as Superfund, saying it was cooperating with federal and state agencies. Cardin says addressing the contamination is overdue. —Associated Press
—Tom Jackman
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