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Daily News from New York, New York • 7

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BDdoDdc (Cop's MM to. dial By SALVATORE ARENA Daily News Staff Writer Eulogized as forgotten angel By DAVID LEWIS Daily News Staff Writer The body of Sabrina Green was buried yesterday in satin and lace, her coffin piled high with pink roses left by neighbors and schoolmates grieving over her horrible death. fJA 1 JO -0 fm guish in so short a time," said More man a dozen family members, including her fa ther, Ronald Kelly, sat in the front pew as the 9-year-old was eulogized as a forgotten angel at Bethel African Meth-odist Episcopal Church in Harlem. "It is hard to imagine how your little body and soul could take so much pain and an- Karen Murumba her second- grade teacher. "Rest in peace, little angel.

You are safe now. Sabrina was found dead in her apartment in the Eden-wald project in the north Bronx a week ago today. She had a fractured skull, had lost a thumb to gangrene and had ft The female police officer charged with trying to kill her married cop lover in August was nabbed again yesterday for allegedly threatening him on the telephone. Sharon Holder, 28, was charged with three counts of criminal contempt for allegedly violating a court order that barred her from contacting Jose Ramos, also 28. A prosecutor said Holder, who faces attempted murder and assault charges in the initial case, tried to talk Ramos out of testifying against her.

After Ramos tried to break off their relationship, Holder shot him three times on Aug. 4 in the garage of her Washington Heights high-rise and then shot herself, police said. Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Schiels said Holder used "intimidation" in three telephone conversations with Ramos on Thursday but Schiels declined to elaborate. Holder was out on $5,000 bail in the shooting case. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Donna Recant ordered Holder held on $100,000 bail in light of the new charges.

No clues in duo hunt By MIKE CLAFFEY Daily News Staff Writer Police combed through the apartment and building of a missing lower Manhattan couple yesterday but turned up nothing to explain their mysterious disappearance. Neighbors and relatives said Michael Sullivan and Camden Sylvia went jogging Nov. 7 and never returned. Cops fear foul play because they have checked the couple's background and said neither has shown a penchant for unexplained absences. Sullivan, 54, is a dancer and choreographer and works at the New Museum in SoHo.

Sylvia is a real estate agent and painter with a fine arts degree from City College. Chuck Delaney, a downstairs neighbor, said the pair jogged frequently. Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the 1st Precinct stationhouse at (212) 334-0611. burns all over her body. Her sister and legal guardian, Yvette Green, 32, a pregnant mother of 10, and Green's boyfriend, Daryl Stephens, 36, have both been charged with manslaughter.

Her mourners included former Mayor David Dinkins, Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew and child welfare Com- missioner Nicholas Scod peUa. The students, carrying balloons and flowers, had marched hand-in-hand five blocks to the church through the freezing drizzle from the Children's Storefront School in Harlem, Sabrina's school until she moved in with her sister. Another sister, Jamila Spencer. 19. said the trat'priv has torn her apart.

"Everybody close your eyes for a minute," she told the congregation. "Imagine how you would feel if Sabrina was your sister and Yvette was your sister." Crew and Scoppetta, who have begun separate investigations into how Sabrina slipped through the cracks of the school system and the city's child welfare agency, sat grim-faced in a side pew through the 90-minute service and led without making a public comment. But several speakers talked from the pulpit about changing the system to protect children from such tragedies. "This has been going on for so long now, and they keep saying they are going to do something about it," former schoolmate Eric Jones, 10, said in a steady voice. "She's in a better place now." Dinkins issued a call for African-Americans to take responsibility for ending vio lence in their communities and in their homes.

"As a father and grandfather, I approach this coffin with a broken heart," he said. "We did not leave the back of the bus only to place our children in the back of an ambulance." Some of the children struggled to understand Sabrina's death. "I want to go to church to see Sabrina's coffin," said Aaron Alfred, 6. "It probably has some gold on it, and it probably looks pretty nice." Sabrina's remains were to be buried next to her mother, who died in 1991, at Mount Holiness Cemetery in Butler, N.J. Sabrina Green FAREWELL: I Ryan i't, Vl 0 A M' i IN- I ft i ftt rf.iW- el Mrtchel (I.) and Eugenie Smith, both 5, hold candle for Sabrina Green at funeral yesterday..

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