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D.A lawmakers to get impaired, older drivers off the road. B2. Section CityRegion The sex trial of a professor begins. B3. Weather, B7.

News in Brief B2 Friday, October 27, 1995 Joan Specter taps Tayoun to help campaign i Li David Boldt She likes his Democratic ties. But the former felon has contacted Republicans, who contend the councilwoman faces trouble within. Taming crime with castration cards show a map of the United States covered with prison bars. Specter, a former gourmet cooking school director who has served on City Council for 16 years, is one of five Republican at-large candidates in a steaming-hot race that will likely have only two winners from her party. It might make sense for Specter, whose husband is the U.S.

senator, to hire someone with strong Democratic ties to encourage support from that party. But Tayoun's been going after Republicans in the river wards. That, the Republicans say, is an act of desperation. "He said he was hired by her to speak to Republican ward leaders to try to put her in line with them," said Vince fenerty, a GOP ward leader in Port Richmond. Fenerty Said the visit by Tayoun was "insulting" and sent a signal that Specter was in trouble within Jier own party.

Fenerty said he was told by Tayoun that Specter "knows she has a problem in some areas and he wants to know what he can do to help." Fenerty, whose ward is the 31st, said he spoke to at least four other Republicans who were contacted by Tayoun. Mark Cumberland, Republican leader in the 33d Ward, said he was tapped by Tayoun and Sen. Arlen Specter on the same day a circum-See SPECTER on B4 Tayoun is a former city councilman for the First District who pleaded guilty in 1991 to charges of racketeering, mail fraud, tax evasion and obstruction of justice. He was released from prison in June 1994 and since then has developed a cottage industry as a consultant to white-collar criminals on their way to federal prisons. His book, Going To is in its fourth printing, and in April Tayoun started a 900-line service for the prison-bound.

His business By Dianna Marder INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Here's a new one: Republican City Councilwoman Joan Specter has hired former federal felon Jimmy Tayoun a Democrat as a consultant on her reelection campaign. And the arrangement has Republicans suggesting that Specter is in trouble with her own party, while the candidate says it's just to improve her prospects among Democrats. In New Jersey, the trial date is now set for the neighbor who allegedly raped and killed 7-year-old Megan Kanka. In Pennsylvania, Gov. Ridge has just signed a version of Megan's Law under which communities can be informed when a convicted sex of fender moves in.

But the sad fact remains that nei ther the trial nor the law offers a Moth truly effective response to the prob er says lem ol violent sex ollenders. The trial will, at best, exact retrf bution against one offender. The provisions in the laws can be too easily evaded, even if they withstand the efforts of the ACLU to make the world safer for sex offenders by she oia son. overturning them. What's worse is that the debate thus far has ignored a solution that could dramatically increase public safety, while saving many sex offend' ers from themselves.

charges yh fill 1 r- I aces It is voluntary castration, and it is neither cruel, nor unusual. Several European countries Denmark Holland, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the former Czechoslovakia have allowed this proce I Pupils and mirrors interact at the Academy of Music. The day also included a demonstration by dancers from the Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet. A school day at the orchestra The child was last seen a month ago. Files on the deaths of three of his siblings have been reopened for review.

By Lea Sitton INQUIRER STAFF WRITER The North Philadelphia woman whose toddler is now the target of an East Coast search faces child-endan-germent charges after telling investigators that she sold the boy for drug money, police said yesterday. The District Attorney's Office is expected to approve charges against Tina Vanderhorst today, Homicide Capt. James Brady said. Police have recommended a series of unspecified charges related to the welfare of a child. "She's going to be charged with something," Brady said of the 31-year-old mother, who told them that she got S500 for her son all in $20 bills, according to another commander.

Investigators at the Medical Examiner's Office continue to review files on the deaths of three other Vanderhorst children, Brady said. The files were pulled after the disappearance of 2-year-old Ke-Shaun, who was last seen a month ago. Two of the deaths, that of an 8-month-old boy in 1980 and a 3-month-old girl in 1983, were attributed to natural causes. Sudden infant death About 2,800 fifth graders (and some fourth graders, too) came to the Academy of Music yesterday for a special concert of new and old music. Among the players was one almost as young as the students: Violinist Karen Sinclair, 15.

dure tor many years, and their experience indicates that it works. Studies that followed the life histories of hundreds of sex offenders who elected castration showed that recidivism rates, which would normally run 60 percent to 80 percent, dropped to 2 percent to 4 percent. (And the offenses that are committed tend to be nonviolent.) How it's done The procedure, called an orchiectomy, is only slightly more complicated than a vasectomy and isn't disfiguring. (The testicles are removed and replaced with prostheses.) While objections to the procedure are almost all based on misconceptions, the idea makes people so squeamish it is seldom spoken of aloud. The only person publicly campaigning for voluntary castration may well be Larry Don McQuay, a Texas inmate who freely admits to molesting 240 children, and says he is certain that he will molest more if released.

He wants to be castrated, but Texas law won't allow it. "For the last five years," McQuay told a journalist recently, "I have been busting my butt to do everything possible to keep me from reoffending, but everyone seems to be dead set against that." The Texas legislature has at least considered legislation to allow voluntary castration; the concept didn't even come up during Pennsylvania's legislative deliberations on its Megan's Law. Only a few articles have been written about it in the mainstream press. One was a short piece that appeared in New Yorker magazine in March 1994, from which the research findings cited in this article are taken. In addition, Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at Penn, wrote an article opposing voluntary castration that appeared on The Inquirer's commentary page in May.

It's too good for them Caplan, interestingly, did not make his case on the grounds one might have expected. He didn't, for exam Ke-Shaun Vanderhorst, 2, was sold for $500, his mother told police in her latest account. syndrome, or crib death, was blamed for the death of Vanderhorst's 10-month-old son in 1985. Vanderhorst has two other sons, ages 7 and 8, who live with therr. paternal grandmother.

Police yesterday clung to the hope that they would find Ke-Shaun alive. Brady contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Virginia, which moved to paper the East Coast and neighboring states with the boy's picture. "Our concern is trying to locate See MOTHER on B6 I -iMUMir Inquirer photos by Tom Gralish City sounds were part of a new piece, "City Music II: New York." Christine Austin reacts at a noisy moment. Campaign '95 Tears flow at police murder trial Designing a new order Who shot Officer Knox? Final arguments in the Ginn brothers' case differed widely. The jury has it.

in the court and Paul J. Ketznecker, in their summations, argued a version of the O.J. Simpson defense: Their clients were framed by overreaching prosecutors, sloppy investigative procedures and officers who planted evidence. "There is not one piece of untainted evidence in this case. The confessions are not corroborated," Newman told jurors.

"The fingerprint evidence is horrendous. What was done is unreal. Why was this The need to solve this case was so overwhelming that Homicide had to See TRIAL on B6 cized the defense team's tactics as smoke and mirrors, and told jurors that the mass of evidence fingerprints, eyewitness identifications and the defendants' own confessions showed that the Ginn brothers killed Police Officer Charles T. Knox Jr. in cold blood and wounded his partner, Anthony Howard on Aug.

30, 1992. Defense attorneys George Newman By Linda Loyd INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Dozens of courtroom spectators including usually stoic Philadelphia police officers were brought to tears yesterday as a fiery prosecutor painted a murderous picture of accused police killers Tucker and Allen Ginn. In his final arguments, Assistant District Attorney Hugh Colihan criti The GOP high-court candidate is frank. Free wheeling. And unusual.

Lockheed Martin will build in Bucks The aerospace giant's ple, argue that the procedure was barbarous, or that it violated the rights of the sex offenders. "I'm liberal, but I'm not a lunatic," he told me this week. Nor did he argue for "treatment" instead of punishment. He agrees that there's no evidence treatment helps sex offenders. He basically thinks castration is too good for violent sex offenders.

He wants to see them imprisoned for life without parole. "Letting the government mutilate the creeps at their request," he wrote, "would be giving them an option they do not deserve." My problem is that I doubt we can afford laws that put sex offenders in prison for life without parole, particularly when a better alternative One out of every six inmates in state and federal prisons at present is a sex offender, and the proportion is likely to rise as the "three strikes and you're out" laws take effect. (Sex offenders are among the most likely criminals to be repeaters.) Caplan has other objections. He questions whether the European studies would apply in the United States, and he may well be right that more research would be helpful. He also wonders whether government should have anything to do with castration, even if only to grant permission.

That's a good question, but it raises another: Is it worse to allow a man to surrender his perverted libido voluntarily or to deprive him of his liberty by force? By Robert Zausner INQUIKER STAFF WRITER "Call me Sandy." It is the first thing one hears when addressing the Honorable Sandra Schultz Newman lawyer, professor, lecturer, scientist, author and member of Commonwealth Court by her proper title: Judge Newman. What's wrong with that? The answer, like most of Newman's answers, is a story. This one occurred several years ago before the state Supreme Court, for which Newman is now a Republican candidate. A young lawyer made the mistake of calling one of the justices on the state's highest court "judge." "The judge chastised him for 45 minutes. I remember seeing it.

It was an easy mistake to make," recalls Newman. "I just thought, 'My God, what kind of person is this he thinks he's so important? Judge instead of justice: What the hell's the Newman, 56, does not like to be called judge when she is out of court. "I'm just a person when I'm not in court. I'm just like everyone else," she said. "That's not part of my be so ceremonious." Few people know much about the person who, if elected, would be the "That's not part of my shtick, to be so ceremonious," says Judge Sandra Schultz Newman.

first woman on the nation's oldest appellate court. The little they do know is that she is wealthy and married to well-known cosmetic surgeon Julius Newman. They do not know that she grew up poor, living with her parents, Oscar and Minerva Schultz, above the family's grocery store at 29th and Reed Streets in South Philadelphia. Or that Jules, as she calls him, was "really poor" as a child. They may have seen her in ene of the candidates' debates and may have observed that she sometimes launched into a rambling response that did not seem to answer the question that maybe she sounded a little, well, not so smart.

Such as her story about getting a marijuana plant as a gift from co-workers. But what they didn't know could not know unless they had had a one-on-one conversation with her is that Newman gives new life to the word candor, especially in the world of politics. That her free-wheeling respores actually have a beginning and an end and a meaning; there just See NEWMAN on B6 decision will bring 1,200 jobs to Newtown Twp. By Russell Gold and Boh Fernandez FOR I Hh I.NhJtj IKhH Lockheed Martin announced yesterday it will build a aerospace center in Newtown Township, Bucks County, ending months of negotiations with the state. The new "Center of Excellence" will save some of the 5,000 jobs at the company's Valley Forge and East Windsor, N.J., facilities, which it is closing as part of a nationwide restructuring.

The plant will employ scientists and engineers designing and building satellites for international markets, officials said at a news confer- i iii in 1 0 i in ILi fin, .1 1 For The Inquirer BARBARA JOHNSTON To get the piant, Pennsylvania of- fered Lockheed Martin an incentive Gov. Ridge meets with nuns from Holy Family College in Newtown in See LOCKHEED on B2 announcing that Lockheed Martin will build on campus property. '1 tl tl a Ji. 1 'if '-'l'i.