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Suffolk Legislator Kara Hahn is at the head of a recycling task force to look at regional approaches to the issue. File Photo

landďŹ ll in 2024, and there being no market to send glass, only compounds the issue the town and municipalities face. “I wish the DEC would be more involved but I’m glad someone is looking into realistic solutions to this problem. We look forward to participating [in the task force],â€? the supervisor said. Similarly Smithtown was also affected by the departure of Green Stream Recycling, as it had a recycling contract with Brookhaven. Smithtown had an agreement to sell all its recyclables through Green Stream for a $180,000 annual proďŹ t. In January 2019, Smithtown residents were told to separate their recyclables when the town switched back to dual-stream recycling. Hahn, the chairwoman of the Legislature’s Environment, Planning & Agriculture Committee, plans to put together a 17-member advisory group made up of municipal recycling professionals, county agencies and environmental advocates. Members have not been ofďŹ cially announced and meetings are scheduled to begin sometime later this year. The task force’s aim would be to review TASK FORCE Continued on A3

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Town Sound Beach Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A Sound Beach man who was arrested last year for sex trafficking pled guilty Feb. 4. He is set to be sentenced in March and faces what could be more than nine years in prison. The Suffolk County district attorney announced Raymond Rodio III pled guilty to several counts of sex trafficking, selling drugs and several counts of promoting prostitution. Police and prosecutors said Rodio had been conducting a human trafficking operation in the basement apartment of his parent’s house located on Lower Rocky Point Road in Sound Beach, in which police said they identified more than 20 victims who had been moved through that house. Rodio engaged in drug sales, including heroin and crack cocaine, and used those drugs to keep better control of his victims, which he pimped out in motels around Long Island. “This is an individual who clearly had no regard for the women he victimized, subjecting them to exploitation, fear and humiliation,” District Attorney Tim Sini (D) said after the defense’s guilty plea was read out. “It is our hope that this guilty plea delivers justice for the many survivors of Rodio’s scheme.”

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The house where Raymond Rodio III allegedly committed acts of sex trafficking. Rodio would allegedly keep women inside his basement apartment as he pimped them out on sites like Craigslist and Backpage. File photo by Kyle Barr

Police also said Rodio would keep women in that basement for an extended period of time, forcing them to use a bucket as a toilet since there was no bathroom in the apartment. The Sound Beach man would post advertisements on websites, including Backpage and Craigslist, promoting prostitution by the victims and would keep either a large percentage or all of the profits of their prostitution. Rodio’s attorney is listed as Scott Gross, a Garden City-based criminal defense attorney. Gross did not return calls for request for comment.

Police originally started investigating Rodio after a Suffolk County police officer noticed a suspected victim of trafficking in his car during a routine traffic stop in August 2018. The man was later arrested in March 2019 after an investigation found a score of other victims. Rodio is scheduled to be sentenced by Acting Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Mark Cohen March 9. The court promised the defendant a 9½-year with five years of postrelease supervision on the top count. He will also be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.

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call earlier this week, were designed to “slow this down before it gets into the United States. If we act now, we do have an opportunity to provide additional protection.” The number of deaths from coronavirus, which has reached almost 500, now exceeds the number for the sudden acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003. The number of infected patients worldwide has reached above 25,000, triggering concerns about a pandemic. More than 1,000 have recovered from the virus. The CDC, which has been coordinating the American response to the virus, has been testing potential cases of the disease. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath. In New York, 17 samples have been sent to the CDC for testing, with 11 coming back negative and six pending. New York created a hotline, 888-364-3065, in which experts from the Department of Health can answer questions about the virus. The DOH also has a website as a resource for residents, at www.health.ny.gov/ diseases/communicable/coronavirus. “While the risk to New Yorkers is still low, we urge everyone to remain vigilant,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said in a statement. The CDC sent an Emergency Use Authorization to the Food & Drug

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Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. At this point, there “doesn’t seem to be much mutation yet.” In the SARS outbreak, a mutation made the virus less virulent. Fries added that the “feeling with SARS was that you weren’t infectious until were you symptomatic. The feeling with this one is that you are potentially infectious” before demonstrating any of the typical symptoms. Fries assessed the threat from contracting the virus in the United States as “low,” while adding that the danger from the flu, which has resulted in over 10,000 deaths during the 2019-20 flu season, is much higher. In the hospital, Fries said the health care staff puts masks on people who are coughing to reduce the potential spread of whatever is affecting their respiratory systems. While Fries doesn’t believe it’s necessary to wear a mask to class, she said it’s not “unreasonable” in densely populated areas like airports and airplanes to wear one. Masks don’t offer complete protection from the flu or coronavirus, in part because people touch the outside of the masks, where viruses CORONAVIRUS Continued on A8

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Town Brookhaven Residents Say Town Needs to Do More on Deer Issue BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With villages like Belle Terre and Port Jefferson taking steps in handling the issue of deer in their municipalities, Town of Brookhaven representatives say there’s things they can do at the Town level to stop the scourge of deer and their impact on the local environment. At a forum hosted by Valerie Cartright (D-Port Jefferson Station) and representatives of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, residents were split on how to handle the overwhelming deer population, but no one questioned whether their impact has been felt far and wide, whether it’s from them simply eating people’s gardens or the mass depletion of saplings and bushes in Long Island forests. “We have not played an active role in respect to deer management,” Cartright said. “It is an issue within our Town, and we can’t rely solely on our villages. So, it’s a question of how can we work with the villages, or how we can do something on our own.” Leslie Lupo, a big game wildlife biologist for the DEC, said that, despite some misconceptions, deer do very well living in a suburban landscape such as Long Island, especially since they have no natural predators. They are polygamous and have short incubation periods, which means, unchecked, their population continues to grow. “No management means more and more deer,” Lupo said. “Unless we eliminate them, there is no check on their carrying capacity. Despite residents’ constant complaints of deer eating plants and vegetables at people’s homes and gardens, deer have had an even more major impact on Long Island’s forests and biodiversity, the biologist said. Many of the saplings in forests have been eaten by deer, and their favoring of ground plants has meant the loss of habitat for some songbird species. “They are a huge changer of their own hab-

Above, Brookhaven resident and avid hunter John German speaks to the Town and DEC about the need for more places to hunt; bottom left, Leslie Lupo, a biologist for the state DEC, speaks on Deer; bottom right, Valerie Cartright hosts a deer forum to see what the town may be able to do to mitigate the issue. Photo by Kyle Barr

itat,” she added. “Deer will just eat everything Long Island. Even with nonlethal alternatives, here and move on to the next property.” she suggested it would be more effective comCartright said the forum was an example of bined with lethal removal. one of the first steps the DEC provides in its Both Lupo and several hunters who came to deer management guide, originally published the Jan. 30 meeting said, despite areas which in 2012, in starting to make have been opened up with cochange. Over the last several operative agreements with the years, the deer issue has balDEC, there are many parts of looned into near-crisis proporthe Island where they are retions. While state officials said stricted from hunting. they cannot give estimates of Not all municipal lands althe number of deer on Long low access. While the setback Island, due to migration and for bowhunters between propother mitigating factors, the erties was changed from 500 total number of deer shot and feet in 2012 to 150 feet a few tagged by hunters in Suffolk —Valerie Cartright years later, hunters said there County is around 3,200-3,400 are only a few public properin the last five years. ties on which they can actualMultiple North Shore villy hunt. The lages have gotten ahead of towns in dealing archery season, which runs directly with the deer issue. Belle Terre, for from Oct. 1 through Jan. 31, is example, has been allowing residents to bring much longer than the shotgun in hunters onto their properties as long as they season, which only runs from conform to state laws regarding setbacks from Jan. 4 to Jan. 31 and requires other properties. Belle Terre Mayor Bob Sandak a Town permit or landowner said this has already made a significant impact consent form. The DEC’s tagin the village’s deer population. ging system essentially allows for “an unlimited harvest of What More Can Be Done? With the need to reduce deer population deer,” Lupo said. “The harclear, the two major schools of thoughts are to vest has been increasing and either encourage recreational hunting or profes- increasing to go along with sional culls or by surgical or chemical steriliza- our increased population.” John German, of the tion. Lupo favored hunting, citing mixed-at-best Brookhaven hamlet and an results from sterilization initiatives. Lupo called recreational hunting the most avid hunter, said that, despite utilized tool for the DEC and said it is “safe and there being a large hunting effective” with a large bowhunting culture on crowd, the number of deer

‘We have not played an active role in respect to deer management.’

does not seem to have stymied. He and other hunters complained about Town-owned lands in which they are unable to hunt. “There’s more deer now than there ever was,” German said. Some called for the Town when it buys land for municipal purposes to allow hunters on that property, but Cartright said the majority of space the Town acquires is small and not conducive to hunting. Lupo said that residents or the Town could start organizing hunts and allow residents to interact with them to allay fears, but other residents strongly supported sterilization initiatives, including Elaine Maas, a board member of the Four Harbors Audubon Society, who pointed to data from Hastings-on-Hudson and its chemical contraceptive program, which from 2014 to 2018 sterilized about 60 deer, which the city described as about 75 percent of the population. Maas also said she has had issues with hunters on a neighboring property for years and described being “confined” in her own home during hunting season. Surgical sterilization can cost as much as $1,000 per deer, while chemical sterilization can cost anywhere from $500 to $3,000. At minimum, 75-90 percent of females would need to be treated to see some effect. Lupo also said another issue is that, in an uncontrolled setting, deer often migrate to and away from some areas, meaning that some chemical sterilization techniques that require multiple treatments become that much harder. “Maybe it will prove to be more beneficial in the future,” she said. Cartright said the next step is to get the rest of the Town council on board. While the board could form a committee in the future, there’s a few “low hanging fruit,” including doing a survey and speaking with villages and her fellow board members. She also mentioned changing Town code regarding fencing to make more residents able to buy higher barriers on property.

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LEGALS NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF SUFFOLK BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF HUNT CLUB AT CORAM HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, against JOHN P. BRENNAN a/k/a JOHN BRENNAN a/k/a JOHN BRENNAN, JR.; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK; CAPITAL ONE BANK USA NA; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES LLC; CLERK OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY TRAFFIC AND PARKING VIOLATIONS AGENCY; TEACHERS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated October 30, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front steps of the Brookhaven Town Hall, One Independence Hill, Farmingville, New York, on February 26, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. premises being at Coram in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk and State of New York, known and designated as Unit No. 190 on a certain

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Code; subject to taxes, assessments and water rates which are liens on the premises at the time of sale, with accrued interest or penalties thereon; and a first mortgage held by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., mortgagee, given to JOHN P. BRENNAN, mortgagor, in the original amount of $135,000.00 dated 12/30/2003 and recorded 01/13/2004 in Liber 20621 at page 604. Said mortgage having been assigned to Nationstar Mortgage, LLC by Assignment of Mortgage dated 9/23/2015 and recorded 11/19/2015 in Liber 22651 at page 614. Index No. 604207-2016 Dated: January 13, 2020 Cheryl Mintz, Esq., Referee Cohen, Warren, Meyer & Gitter, P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 80 Maple Avenue, Smithtown, NY 11787. 284 1/23 4x vbr

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Suffolk County police said a man was killed in Port Jefferson Station early Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash. Police said Joel Almanzar, 35, of Port Jefferson Station was driving a 2014 BMW sedan on Green Avenue, off Bicycle Path, Jan. 30 when the vehicle veered off the roadway, hit a parked car and continued through a fence before striking a tree and a shed at around 1:30 a.m., Jan. 30. Almanzar was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead. A Gofundme for Almanzar has already raised over $8,500 of a $20,000 goal for what

Police said a Centereach woman was killed in Centereach last Saturday while she was crossing the street. Suffolk County police said Christine Chellis, 35, of Centereach was driving a Chevrolet Suburban westbound on Route 25, west of Wood Road, and was changing from the right lane to the left lane when the vehicle struck a pedestrian crossing the street at 6:24 p.m.

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Police said Joel Almanzar was killed after his car struck a parked vehicle, ran through a fence, striking a tree and shed. Photo from Almanzar’s Gofundme

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The pedestrian, Laura Godek, 57, of Centereach, was transported by the Centereach Fire Department to Stony Brook University Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Chellis was not injured. The vehicle was impounded for a safety check. Anyone with information on this crash is asked to call the 4th Squad at 631854-8452.

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Police Say More Than 200 Sex Trafficking Victims Known But Have ‘Only Scratched the Surface’ BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Two mothers, one from Farmingville and the other from Merrick, may live on different parts of Long Island, but both had very similar experiences, watching their daughters abused in sex trafficking schemes that saw men use drugs to keep their children captive. Lisa Principe and Maria Francavilla spoke of their experiences Jan. 31 at a Suffolk County Police Department press conference in Yaphank to round off National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Principe said her daughter, Jenna, went to school at Wellington C. Mepham High School in Bellmore. She said her daughter fell in love with a man who ended up taking advantage of her in the extreme. She was gang raped at only 19 years old, as her “initiation.” She was kept in motels with a number of other girls as her pimps used her addiction to drugs to keep her under control. She would spend time in and out of jail, but as soon as she got out the traffickers were there to pick her up and bring her back into the fold. “They took her soul,” Principe said. Even after the men keeping her were arrested, Jenna would later die at 27 from an overdose at home. Though her hardship remains, she said she hopes new initiatives from the police will help combat the slew of sex trafficking cases happening all across the Island, targeting potential victims on the internet, in public places or even around schools. Jennifer Hernandez, the executive director of the nonprofit Empowerment Collaborative of Long Island, which provides trauma services for victims of human trafficking and other abuse, said they have worked with more than 160 victims of trafficking just this past year. “Most of which were born and raised right here on Long Island — in Suffolk County.” she said. Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said the biggest misconception about sex trafficking is that it’s men piling people, mostly immigrants, into the back of trucks and taking them away. Modern sex trafficking happens to people of all walks, immigrants and native-born Long Islanders. Traffickers take vulnerable people, mostly young women, and use a combination of drugs, violence and other emotional manipulation to

Photos clockwise from top: Maria Francavilla, left, and Lisa Principe speak about their daughters experiences Jan. 31; Francavilla and Principe’s daughters; Lt. Frank Messana of the police’s human trafficking unit speaks alongside commissioner Geraldine Hart. Photos by Kyle Barr

control these women. There’s no single place, police said, whether rich or poor, that sex trafficking isn’t happening. The epidemic is tied to the opioid crisis that still rages in communities across the Island. Since October of 2017, the police’s human trafficking unit has leveraged 417 charges against individuals, with 186 she said were specifically related to sex trafficking. The police

has interacted with and identified over 220 women involved with trafficking since the beginning of the initiative, with the youngest one being only 12 years old. Still with those numbers, Detective Lt. Frank Messana, the commanding officer of the department’s human trafficking unit, said they have “only scratched the surface.” On Jan. 25, Kings Park man and alleged Bloods gang member Abiodun “Abi” Adeleke was sentenced to 25 years in prison for multiple counts of sex trafficking. He allegedly participated in this ring from 2014-18. Last year, Sound Beach man Raymond Rodio III was arrested for allegedly hosting a sex trafficking ring at his parent’s house on Lower Rocky Point Road.

Police and the county district attorney said he had preyed on more than 20 women over several years, most from Suffolk, with many floating in and out from the man’s basement apartment as his parent’s home located in a relatively middle-class neighborhood. Rodio had pleaded not guilty and was next expected to appear in court Feb. 4. Rodio’s investigation originally began in 2018 when an officer witnessed a suspected victim of trafficking in the alleged perpetrator’s car during a traffic stop. Hart said such awareness and education, for not only police officers but the general public, is doing much of the job of finding and arresting sex traffickers. In October 2017, police first piloted its human trafficking program, which then became permanent in 2018. The commissioner said in the year prior to the unit being formed, there hadn’t been any examples of sex trafficking arrests. In 2019, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office started a human trafficking unit to work inside the county jails. Undersheriff Kevin Catalina said the team of officers look to identify human trafficking victims within the jail. While women are in jail for a stint, officers can get them to “open up.” Many, he said, could not even identify they were victims of trafficking, instead thinking these people were their “boyfriends.” Francavilla had a similar experience to Principe. Her daughter, Tori, fell in with the wrong people early out of high school. She described it got to the point that her daughter was, “handcuffed to a bed and kept captive.” She would eventually help put the perpetrator away but, like Jenna, the opioid addiction followed her even after her traumatic experiences. She died when she was 24. Police said a person is at-risk or is already a victim of trafficking if they start to show behavior of chronically running away from home or having a history of unstable housing, demonstrates inability to regularly attend school or work, exhibits bruises or other physical trauma, withdrawn behavior, signs of drug or alcohol addiction, inconsistencies in their stories, inappropriate dress, a mention of a pimp, “daddy” or being “in the life,” suspected engaging in prostitution, history of pregnancies, abortions or sexually transmitted diseases, and looking as if they worked excessively long hours. Identifying such a person, a resident should call 911 in an emergency, or contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS (8477). People can find more information and resources at the ECLI at www.empowerli.org.

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Third-grade class and teacher Rebecca Pagnotta, back left, showcase their Valentine’s Day cards. Photo from RPUFSD

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condense, and then touch parts of their face. Even with the mask on, people touch their eyes. “The most important thing is to keep your hands clean,” Fries suggested. Fries believes the 14-day quarantine period for people coming from an area where coronavirus is prevalent is “probably on the generous side.” Scientists come up with this time period to establish

The cards have been mailed to U.S. Marine Corps Major Bill White, a 104-year-old man living in a senior citizen center in California, who requested as many Valentine’s Day cards as possible. The heartfelt gifts of kindness will be preserved with his lifetime scrapbooks of precious memories and items – including his Purple Heart.

guidelines for health care providers throughout the country. Fries suggested that the only way these precautions are going to work is if they are aggressive and done early enough. “Once the genie is out of the bottle” and an epidemic spreads to other countries, it becomes much more difficult to contain, Fries said. The best-case scenario is that this virus becomes a contained problem in China. If it doesn’t spread outside the country, it could follow the same pattern as SARS, which abated within about eight months.

While there is no treatment for this new coronavirus, companies and governments are working on a possible vaccine. This, Fries estimated, could take about a year to create. Looking out across the calendar, Fries wondered what would happen with the Olympics this year, which are scheduled for July 24 through Aug. 9 in Tokyo. Athletes who have been training for years certainly hope the virus is contained by then. A similar concern preceded the 2016 Olympics, when Zika virus threatened to derail the games in Brazil.

Middle School robotics team members Alex Grundmann, left, and Kristian Hald design a contraption. Photo from RPUFSD

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The Rocky Point Middle School robotics teams recently competed in one of eight Long Island qualifying tournaments for the FIRST LEGO League and brought back two major awards. The Robo Eagles team members — Matthew Blaising, Matteo Gravinese, Alex Grundmann, Kristian Hald, Cooper Peterson and Jake Whitehouse — won the Project Research Award for their innovative idea of designing and building a handicap ramp allowing students with special needs to participate in all aspects of the robotics competitions. The Radical Robotix team — Christian Cordova, Sola Matsumoto, Iris Nakagawa, Allyson Opitz, Micah Santiago and Sofia Santos – won the Project Innovative Solution Award. The

project idea is a backup rechargeable battery that will be recharged by generators hooked up to exercise bikes in the school’s weight room, which would create virtually free power. The idea stemmed from the loss of power at the middle school — a designated Suffolk County Evacuation Center — during Hurricane Sandy when backup emergency batteries for lights lasted for only eight hours during six days without power. The Robo Eagles team qualified for the Long Island Championship Tournament, which will be held March 1 at Longwood High School. The district also congratulated coach Mark Moorman and assistant coach Kelly O’Reilly.

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high jump event clearing 6 feet, 4 inches, landing the Wildcats 12th in the team standings. Photos clockwise from above: Rocky Point senior Jimmy Curley, left, runs 3,200 meters; Mount Sinai senior Matthew Schreiber throws 40 feet, 4½ inches at the county finals; Mount Sinai sophomore George Franks placed third clocking in at 37.34 in the 300m dash; Mount Sinai senior Noah Metzler finished third in 3,200m event clocking in at 9:56.77; Shoreham-Wading River senior Adam Zelin places fourth at 3,200m.

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Mount Sinai Girl Hoopsters Upset John Glenn BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM It was sweet revenge for the Mount Sinai High School girls basketball team Feb. 3, when the Mustangs edged out Elwood’s John Glenn High School 68-64. The Mustangs had suffered a 27-point loss to the same school back in January. Playing to a capacity crowd at John Glenn was a must win game for Mount Sinai. In order to make the Suffolk County playoffs, the Mount Sinai girls pulled off a dramatic overtime win. With leading scores, sophomores Casey Campo and Kylie Budke were fouled in the fourth period. It was freshman Daniella Sofia and junior Makayla Hartcorn leading the attack going forward in overtime. Sofia ended the game with 11 points and Hartcorn hit her stride with 14 points. Leading Mount Sinai in scoring was Campo, who had a total of 28 points, including an incredible six 3-pointers. Mount Sinai played Bayport-Blue Point in its final game Feb. 5, where results were not available by press time, and are set to start in playoffs next week.

Sophomore Casey Campo during an earlier season game against Shoreham-Wading River Photo by Bill Landon

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Recognizing the Signs Zeldin’s Comments Are Demeaning of Sex Trafficking

While many may equate the stereotype of human trafficking to immigrant communities being shuttled around the United States, sex slavery — of women being coerced and then forced into prostitution — happens right in our North Shore communities. As difficult as it is to accept this fact, residents need to come to terms in order to help combat the problem. Last week, Suffolk County police held a press conference to discuss the threat, especially to young women, and the role drug addiction plays in the exploitation. It’s important to take note that some of these victims didn’t start as drug addicts. Many are fed drugs by their pimps to keep them helpless and dependent on them. We all know the general rules of safety in public to be wary of strangers trying to convince us to go to a secluded place. Other things to keep in mind are also the basics like to travel in groups at night or crowded events, don’t overindulge in alcohol while in public, be aware of your surroundings at all times, keep track of others in your group and never leave a drink unattended. If you feel you’re being followed in a store, try to find an employee, who will ensure someone walks out to your car with you. If you are not the person being followed by someone, approach the individual you feel may be in danger. It’s better to look like a fool if you’re wrong than to hear that a person was abducted. Act like you know the person being followed. Greet them loudly as you approach and then get as close as possible and whisper that you think they are being followed. But regarding sex trafficking, much of it is happening behind closed doors. Often young women around high school age — those going through an emotionally turbulent time — are targeted by men who manipulate them. While police officers described efforts to become familiar with the signs of sex trafficking, Long Islanders need to become more aware of just what sex trafficking looks like, and they need to become more willing to step up and call police if they have suspicions. Police describe women who are approached by men at public places, such as malls, parties or even schools. They endear themselves to the women, taking them out on dates and treating them like they are loved, before getting them addicted to drugs and using that addiction to control them. In public, or even amongst your family, if you notice young women with unexplained bruises or signs of drug or alcohol addiction, look for them disappearing at odd hours and speech mentioning a pimp, “daddy” or being in the “life.” Most victims of trafficking do not even understand they are being used in the way they are. Trafficking activities can also be spotted at hotels, where more and more employees are being trained to spot victims, but you should never hesitate to notify a manager if you notice signs such as various men coming and going from one room. (This is something to take note of, even in your neighborhood when it comes to a house.) Other signs are of a person allowing someone else to do the talking for them or a young woman with a much older man as her “romantic” partner. When it comes to voting, pay more attention to the judges elections. To save these victims, judges need compassion and to be able to spot when a person isn’t choosing to sell their bodies for money. They need to know what organizations to reach out to in order to help these victims. An African proverb says it takes a village to raise a child. Keep all young people under your watchful eye to protect them from these predators.

I have been watching the impeachment of Donald J. Trump with great interest. I have also noted some disturbing behavior exhibited by my representative, Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1). Zeldin is an ardent Trump supporter, eager to defend his most obvious and flagrant abuses. Like Trump, Zeldin has been using Twitter and Facebook to demean and insult opponents and disseminate false information. He repeats lies, calling impeachment “a sham, rigged, based solely on hearsay.” He pretends that calling Trump to account for his lawlessness is “ripping the country apart.” When a journalist

asked him to name corruption pursued by the Trump administration other than Biden and CrowdStrike, he could not. Instead, he called the journalist “a Schiff shill” who insulted her audience for asking the question. Zeldin has plenty of time to appear on Fox News both day and night, tweet, carry two Facebook pages where he shadow bans, show up in Port Jeff to call its mayor a “far left anti-Trumper” while cheering a building owner who brazenly broke the Village’s sign ordinance but never has time to hold a town hall at night, when working people can attend.

He flits from firehouse to restaurant during the day where his audience sports gray and white hair. It has been over three years since Zeldin engaged people of all political persuasions within his district. I want to know why he supports dismantling federal regulations that protect our air, water and land and cuts to Social Security and Medicaid and votes against our SALT deductions, to name a few. I consider all this cowardly and unbecoming of a representative of all the people. We deserve better. Cristina Bono East Setauket

An Open Letter to Victoria’s Secret CEO Dear Mr. Les Wexner, CEO of L Brands, owner Victoria’s Secret, Dropping you a quick note to share some thoughts around your latest reported earnings. Noticed the sales of Victoria’s Secret dropped a bit and thought to provide you with my experience of your brand. As compared to when the company first started, the quality of Victoria’s Secret has dropped considerably. When I mentioned this quality concern to your store associate, specifically regarding your products premature failure to retain their form, the associate cheerfully shared I should not place my undergarments in the dryer, because it causes the elasticity to wear prematurely. Yes, it’s true, this can happen. However, I don’t have this

experience with other clothing, either undergarments or outer garments. Instead, it’s clear that this associate’s suggestion is meant to compensate for the products diminished quality. There could be another reason for Victoria Secret’s lower reported earnings, and it has to do with marketing. I should share ahead of time; my career involves marketing. It is from this perspective that I note your marketing might be offensive to women, because we are only depicted in one way. If it works, great. But when it doesn’t, or the message gets worn out, it’s time for a change. Given the times, depicting woman simply as sex objects could be to some, after a while, ridiculous — one dimensional, if you will. As far as addressing your falling

sales, my first suggestion is to increase your quality and be known for quality. Another way to say it is to make “quality” a synonym with your name. My second suggestion is to update your marketing to something relevant to 2020. Perhaps depicting women as successful instead of your singled-minded depiction of them as nothing more than sex goddesses or sex toys. In my own work, I find it beneficial to grow sales by portraying women as professional, successful and intelligent regardless of our role in life, home, work and play. Women are made up of so many unique and wonderful qualities, just like men, and depicting them in such a limited fashion needs a “brand new dance”! Gretchen Specht Miller Place

LIRR Has a Different Definition of On Time Long Island Rail Road President Phil Eng announcing that his on-time performance for train arrivals is the best in three years was far from credible when you look at the criteria used for his assumptions. Here is what he neglected to mention. What about all the canceled and combined trains due to periodic power

outages, signals, broken rails and other problems? These result in overcrowding and standing in the aisles. Claiming that on-time performance is improving was misleading. Any train arriving within 600 feet of a Penn Station platform or other final destinations within 5 minutes and 59 seconds is considered

“on time.” For many LIRR commuters who have to arrive at work on time, their bosses would not be happy. The LIRR definition of on time is like a teacher giving students a passing grade by rigging the results. Larry Penner Great Neck

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Opinion

Misdirected Fear of New Virus Is Not Acceptable

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ear can be a great motivator. Fear of failing a test can lead someone to study harder, to pay attention in class and to do whatever is necessary to learn the material. In many movies, the lead character has to face his or her fears to accomplish something. Luke Skywalker from the “Star Wars” films had to face his father, Darth D. None Vader, to become a Jedi. of the above Fear, however, BY DANIEL DUNAIEF can also bring out the worst in people, especially when that fear is misplaced and misdirected. Last week, the University of California’s Tang Center, in Berkeley, listed a set of

normal reactions to the new coronavirus on its Instagram account. Among other reactions, like feeling anxiety, worry or panic, the school suggested that xenophobia, or “fears about interacting with those who might be from Asia” was also normal. The Instagram post went on to add that having “guilt about these feelings” was normal, too. Chances are, if you’re feeling guilty about a feeling, it’s probably misdirected and uninformed. Amid an enormous backlash from alumni at the school, whose current freshman class is about 43 percent Asian, the university has since apologized and taken down the post. The school hopefully learned, and also offered a valuable lesson. People in the United States are no more likely to contract a virus that currently has a 2 percent mortality rate from an Asian person than they are from anyone else who is sniffling and coughing. In fact, at this point in the year, someone near you who is sneezing, coughing or looks sick is exponentially more likely to have the flu.

Yes, the vast majority of the almost 25,000 cases of the coronavirus — with about 3,200 critical — are located in China and, yes, many countries, including the United States, have taken strong steps to limit the possibility of turning this epidemic into a pandemic, causing the virus to spread to two or more continents. Where someone’s ancestors come from, or where they themselves were born, is much less relevant than where they themselves have traveled in the last two weeks. And, on top of that, even if someone — Asian, Caucasian, African American, Native American or otherwise — has been to Asia in the last month, if that person has been back in the United States for more than two weeks without showing any signs of illness, then he or she falls into the same category as anyone and everyone else with whom we ride the Long Island Rail Road, sit in a movie theater or stroll through a mall. The mandatory quarantine period for people returning from Wuhan, the Chinese center of the outbreak, is two weeks. Fear of this virus shouldn’t encourage any

of us to avoid people with a specific heritage because the virus doesn’t care about the small genetic differences that create races. It only seeks the receptor in our cells that allow it to get inside and cause respiratory infections. So, how do we manage our fear of the virus? We tackle it the same way we do our fear of getting a flu. We wash our hands regularly, we try not to touch our face, and we don’t shake hands with anyone who has a stuffy nose or is coughing. We can also boost our own immune system by getting enough sleep and eating the right foods. The coronavirus, for which there are currently no treatments or vaccines, has generated a steady drumbeat of horrible news, from the number of people infected to those who have died, which has climbed to almost 500 but with more than 1,000 recoveries. Fear of the virus can be and is healthy, motivating countries to protect their citizens and limiting the spread of the virus. The fear, however, of any group will never be “normal” and certainly isn’t acceptable.

immediately at the end of the president’s talk. As residents listened for the results of the Iowa caucuses, the first indication of voter sentiment in a presidential election year, the new app relaying the results that the Iowa Democratic Party planned to use broke down, and those trying to log in or download it had no training for the task. Fortunately, there seems to be paper backup for the votes, but it takes time for the voting cards to be counted by hand. According to partial returns so far, still only 71 percent, former Vice President Joe Biden is trailing the other three leaders: Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the youngest candidate at age 38, has a slim and unpredicted lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Even as people await the final results, the scene is now shifting to the second voting site and the first primary in the nation, that of New Hampshire. Back in Washington, the vote in the Senate to impeach the president was another historic and unprecedented news item. The partisan wrangling in the House and Senate between the two major parties has been constantly on display throughout the impeachment hearings the past

months. The drama was put forth with an eye to the coming elections and promises a hard and bitter fight from now until November. A little bit of relief was provided by the annual football contest, the Super Bowl, this past Sunday evening. For those who watched, the fourth quarter provided much excitement and an intensity that blocked out even the loudest grim news. Three cheers for the 24-year-old quarterback, Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, who brought his team back from defeat and became the youngest winner of both a Super Bowl and a regular season NFL (2018) MVP award. Then there is Harvey Weinstein and the trial that, for me, is too much in the news. The constant stream of rape details that are being eagerly reported is a nauseating backdrop for the aforementioned news. There will undoubtedly be a movie. Speaking of movies, the Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are coming this Sunday, and they should provide distraction from the heavier events. And isn’t it interesting to learn from a recent news article, that there are probably more than 10 million American nudists? See, you can find happy news if you just try.

A Most Dramatic Week

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his was the week that was. And what a week of atypical news it was. Let’s start with the coronavirus and its progression toward a pandemic. The global death toll stood at 492 as of Wednesday morning, according to NBC News, and confirmed cases top 24,000 in mainland China. More than 185,000 people are currently under medical observation, Chinese health officials said. Hundreds of U.S. nationals were removed from locked-down Between Wuhan and have arrived in the Unityou and me ed States, as two BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF more rescue planes landed at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. Passengers will be quarantined for 14 days before

being released. So far, there have been 11 cases in the U.S. Trailing China with confirmed cases are Japan with 35, Singapore with 28, Thailand with 25 and South Korea with 19. But the virus has definitely spread beyond Asia and has been found in Germany, France, Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Sweden, Finland and beyond. There are even 10 passengers with the virus from a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan. Another cruise ship, with 3,600 aboard, has been quarantined in Hong Kong. While there is talk of work on a coronavirus vaccine, health professionals agree it will take up to a year before such a vaccine would be available to the general public. A traditional news event with an unusual twist was the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night in the House of Representatives that had voted to impeach him. Extreme partisanship was on display at the start when President Donald Trump (R) did not shake hands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) — second in the line of succession to the highest office next to Vice President Mike Pence (R). Then the speaker tore up a text of the speech as the cameras were rolling

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