The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 368

6BR THE MIAMI HERALD THURSDAY JANUARY 17 1991 F3Ts State worker jailed in sex abuse case Alleged mobster jailed in office sting i vv By TRISH POWER Herald Staff Writer FORT LAUDERDALE A youth worker was arrested Wednesday on charges of molesting a 15-year-old girl while she was in custody at the Broward Regional Detention Center The arrest is the fourth in recent weeks in which a state employee in Broward has been accused of sexuallv abusing a child Paul Howard 21 was charged with three counts of indecent assault on a child after he surrendered to Fort Lauderdale detective Sandra Memrick spokesman Ott Cefkin said Mariconda Luna before being transferred to the Florida Health and Rehabilitative Services center in Fort Lauderdale police said The girl was waiting for her father to pick her up when Howard offered her a cigarette He told her she smoke in the holding cell and took her to a bathroom about 4:40 am then locked her inside to smoke it police reports said Howard allegedly returned and fondled her three times under the pretense that he must search her before she returned to the cell The girl told her father when he arrived Fort Lauderdale police were contacted and they started an investigation Howard who has worked as a guard at the center for 18 months was being held in lieu of $15250 bail Wednesday in the Broward County Jail About three weeks ago Fort Lauderdale police arrested Terry Bynes 25 a three-year employee of the state center He was charged with one count of sexual activity with a child and one count of indecent assault on a 14-year-old runaway On Dec 7 Albert Humphrey a security guard at South Florida State Hospital in Pembroke Pines was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old female patient The day before state youth worker Michael Walker was charged with sexually assaulting two Broward teen-age girls placed in his custody The girls 14 and 15 years old were delinquents in HRS custody men pushed into a room at Pin-Ups for Men a club on State Road 7 west of Fort Lauderdale as a man grabbed for his drawers Investigators believe the bust closed down the last of 20 prostitution houses believed to be operated by the Bonanno family and all but two of more than 60 known houses of prostitution operating in unincorporated Broward two years ago The businesses shut down were Gentle Touch 2980 Griffin Rd Studio One 2201 Sample Rd Classic Studio 3662 NE 18th Ter Salt Pepper 3521 Broward Blvd 5811 Hallandale Beach Blvd 4881 SW 28th Ter and Pin-Ups 1874 State Road 7 Arrested along with Chilli and Mariconda were Rosa Luna 40 of Fort Lauderdale and John Del-Prete 43 of Pompano Beach RAIDS FROM 1BR bonuses A seasonal Hollywood resident Chilli has past convictions for murder obstruction of justice and forgery the sheriffs office reported Near the end of the prostitution investigation the FBI passed along a tip that Chilli now mistrusted Faulkner and had threatened to kill him and his wife Chilli denied making the statement when questioned after his arrest Faulkner said was very said wife Mary Ellen wanted it to be over with but I tell him really The busts were made simultaneously at 11:30 am Wednesday It was such a surprise that one customer was caught with his pants off Television and newspaper camera The alleged attack occurred Dec 23 after the girl was arrested by Plantation police The reason for the arrest was not released but the girl was searched by a female officer DelPrete Chilli For the benefit of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 23 1IOW MANY DIETS HU YOU BEEN ON AND OI You have not failed the diet has Diet thinking or diet mentality does not work BREAK PITT OF THE DIET SYNDROME Trial starts for band that sang Crew tunes You will be taught: That food is not the problem To never feel deprived and learn to care about yourself How to think and feel like a thin pergon How to change eating habits permanently and your mental attitude about food A new psycho-educational program utilizing hypnosis 5 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landed them in jail was really a political protest The three band members Tim Quirk Jay Blumenfield and Alexander Smallens are charged with giving an obscene performance at Club Futura Aug 15 The band played 1 1 tunes but the songs that landed the band members in jail were their renditions of six 2 Live Crew songs On Wednesday band members told the six jurors hearing the case that they played the bawdy songs to protest 2 Live arrest on obscenity charges at the same club in June 2 Live Crew was acquitted on those charges in October was a political said Ed Salantrie attorney for band member Blumenfield came down here to protest the erosion of their freedom of speech and The First Amendment protects political speech and the law requires that Too Much Joy be acquitted if the band members prove that their performance was colored by politics Assistant State Attorney John Countryman who is prosecuting the case began the trial by reading straight from the 2 Live Crew song sheet The political 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