8 SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
R’wood activist applauds ‘Erin’s Law’ Probe goes on
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@QNS.COM
@ROBBPOZ
A gunman opened fire
on three men at a Richmond
Hill street corner
early on Monday morning,
killing one and leaving two
others seriously injured, police
reported.
Authorities said the gunfire
broke out at around 4:27 a.m.
on Sept. 2 near the intersection
of 130th Street and 92nd
Avenue, an industrial area of
Richmond Hill near a Long
Island Rail Road train yard.
The New York Daily News
reported the bullets rang out
near the Mazi nightclub.
Officers from the 102nd
Precinct, in responding to
a 911 call about an assault,
found Brooklyn resident
Mohammed Uddin, 28, with
a gunshot wound to his torso.
They also discovered another
28-year-old man who had been
shot multiple times in the
chest, and a 27-year-old man
who took bullets to both of his
legs.
Law enforcement sources
did not have any details regarding
a possible motive, or
the circumstances leading up
to the shooting.
Paramedics rushed Uddin, a
resident of Ocean Avenue in
Flatbush, to Jamaica Hospital,
where he was pronounced
dead.
Police said the other 28-
year-old man is currently
listed in critical condition at
Jamaica Hospital, and the 27-
year-old man is at NewYork-
Presbyterian Queens hospital
in stable condition.
No arrests have been made
in the ongoing investigation,
police said.
BY BILL PARRY
BPARRY@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
A Ridgewood activist is feeling
relieved now that Governor
Andrew Cuomo has enacted
“Erin’s Law” in New York state that
requires public schools to teach sexual
abuse and exploitation prevention
classes for students in kindergarten
through eighth grade beginning
next year.
Connie Altamirano, a 45-year-old
single mother of two who suffers
from PTSD and other complications
following her own sexual abuse as
a child, spent seven years advocating
for the legislation that requires
instruction each year to know the
difference between safe and unsafe
touches as well as safe and unsafe
secrets.
“What Governor Cuomo signed
will save lives and it will save years
and decades of trauma by survivors
and children in New York state,” Altamirano
said.
Erin’s Law is named for Erin Merryn,
another abuse survivor and
activist against child sexual abuse
who has advocated for similar laws
nationwide for more than a decade.
When Cuomo signed the legislation,
he called sexual abuse a national
epidemic that has inflicted unimaginable
pain on countless children.
“Many children who have been a
victim of these horrific crimes or
who are still suffering from abuse
don’t have the information or emotional
tools they need to fight back,”
Cuomo said. “By requiring schools
to teach kids how to recognize and
ultimately thwart this heinous
behavior, we are giving our most
vulnerable New Yorkers a voice
Ridgewood’s Connie Altamirano (at right) with Governor Andrew Cuomo.
and empowering them to protect
themselves.”
Altamirano originally began lobbying
in Albany is support of former
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey’s
Child Victims Act which Cuomo
signed into law in February.
“The CVA and Erin’s Law go hand
in hand,” she said. “I do wish the governor
had signed it by July 1 so we
might have gotten the curriculum in
place in time for this school year, but
I understand the funding wasn’t in
the budget for this year.”
Altamirano wishes the state was
doing more to advertise what Erin’s
Photo courtesy of Connie Altamirano
Law will do.
“I go house to house and to parks
and the beach distributing information
that educates everyone from
children to senior citizens, and I meet
with educators and school administrators
in all five boroughs helping
to prepare them for the new curriculum”
Altamirano said. “More should
be provided to inform the public on
the details. Yes, the CVA and Erin’s
Law passed in the same year, that’s
two important bills in eight months,
but we are not done. We still have to
do more for the survivors and the
children of New York state.”
Assemblyman Mike Miller recently met with local small business owners at his Woodhaven district offi ce to
hear their concerns in the community. “It is important to shop local and support local small businesses,” said
Miller. “They are the backbone of our community.” Photo courtesy of Assemblyman Mike Miller
in a deadly
R.H. shooting
Miller holds small biz talk in Wdhvn.
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