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Victim Had Told Newsday Photo by Karen Wiles Eve Wilkowitz below was believed headed for the Bay Shore railroad station above when she was last seen alive Map shows station her home and the lot where her body was found By Jim Mulvaney Bay Shore Eve Wilkowitz whose body was found Tuesday morning in a lot about a block from her home had told the man she was living with that she was frightened about men following her home from the railroad station Robert Grogan 21 who had been living with the 20-year-old Miss Wilkowitz at 150 Fifth Ave for two years said she had complained several times about men following her during her 10-min-ute walk down the dark deserted streets from the railroad station from which she commuted to her job in Manhattan "She was said Grogan a construction worker "There was one guy who kept asking her out and she said she interested But he followed her a couple of times There was another time also a couple of weeks ago she got home about 2 AM when another guy followed her home She was really He said she always had walked home from the station because it was as quick as driving Police declined to comment on whether they believe one of the men Grogan talked about had abducted the girl Miss Wilkowitz was apparently strangled and her body dumped in a yard at 26 Centre Ave Police said she apparently had been garroted with a piece of rope and been bound at the wrists They have not determined exactly when she died although they believe the woman was abducted and then killed a few days later She was last seen alive early Saturday morning in Pennsylvania Station when she boarded a train for Bay Shore "This is a very brutal a homicide detective said "We know yet if she was known to her murderer or she got jumped All I know is that got to get that guy She was a nice young Homicide detectives have been interviewing neighbors and trying to set up interviews with the train crew to find any clue that might lead them to the killer Police said that Grogan was not a suspect Lt Hans Darer of the Suffolk County homicide squad said that they have traced Miss movements from her job as a secretary at the MacMillan Publishing Co at 866 Third Ave in Manhattan on Friday afternoon to a Manhattan restaurant where she dined with a male friend and eventually to Pennsylvania Station where she boarded the 12:29 AM train to Bay Shore where we lose he said hoping that someone spotted her on the train so we can find out if she met someone on the train or got waylaid on the way Darer asked that anyone who might have seen her on the train or elsewhere over the weekend to call 979-9700 ext 315 Grogan said he had expected Miss Wilkowitz home by 2 AM When he awoke about 7 AM Saturday he said he called police to report her missing He filed a missing persons report at 11 AM Saturday Before moving to Bay Shore Miss Wilkowitz lived with her father Alfred and younger sister Irene in Oakdale Sunrise BAY SHORE ji LI Agency Defends Legal Rights sion It now includes elementary school students who were not part of the original plan for the advocacy program The large number of handicapped cases grow out of a 1975 federal law that established the district committees on the handicapped to identify and place disabled students Youth Advocates has gained the respect of school administrators according to interviews with several school officials "When students come in with a legal problem called them for said Robert Andrews principal of Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park "I know there because they took me to Andrews was challenged over his decision to destroy an issue of the student newspaper which contained defamatory remarks about a student leader He won pleased that they look at both sides of he said Only 15 to 20 cases a year go to court said Ms Rollins because advocates try to negotiate "Often the district backs out of its comer as soon as we walk she said co By Aileen Jacobson Arlene Goldstein of North Massa-pequa suspected for six years that her son now 11 had learning difficulties He was not receiving adequate help she said despite her complaints to administrators in the Plainedge School District The situation changed three months after she contacted Youth Advocates of Long Island a group which handles legal rights and its director Norma Rollins Today her son is in a special BOCES school in Elmont where Mrs Goldstein says he is receiving the attention he needs to overcome his perception hearing and motor problems "Without Norma this never would have Mrs Goldstein said this week "He would still be where he was He would have continued Mrs case is typical of many handled by Youth Advocates an organization begun two years ago by the Nassau chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union Last year the agency handled 400 cases and dozens of telephone inquiries about legal rights ranging from the rights of disabled students to play sports to the rights of student newspapers to print what they wish All its services are free not a social service Ms Rollins said "We only handle cases with a constitutional overlay in which the school has in some way failed the Most often the agency helps parents through the maze of regulations and jargon that most lay people understand "I was said one mother of a handicapped student who did not want her name used 'They sent an advocate and she spoke to the handicapped board in the language they understand I understand the terminologies the disabilities I was afraid She has been like a right arm to Her 7-year-old son now gets special reading and other help in his own school The agency has grown from a staff of three in Mineola to a staff of 13 with a second office in Hauppauge Its annual budget of more than $200000 comes from the Veatch Program the funding arm of the North Shore Unitarian Society in Plandome and federal grants and private donations It handled 152 cases involving handicapped students last year and more than 60 others dealing with students who were suspended thrown out or pressured by their school districts to drop out of their schools because they caused discipline problems Other cases involved student newspaper rights of free speech the Island Trees book-banning case residency disputes when parents are divorced and corporal punishment In one pending court case Youth Advocates attorney John Kilgallon is attempting to establish the right of a Sachem 9th grader to play in school sports even though he has impaired vision in one eye and must wear an eye guard If the boy wins Kilgallon said the school district would be absolved of liability Barbara Bernstein executive director for the Nassau NYCLU said she is pleased by the expan.