European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes High bail is accused of a . Saturday january 16,1993 Central Islip . Map a Man charged with keeping a 10-year-Otd girl chained in a cramped underground cell for 16 Days was ordered held thursday on $500,000 bail. The girl Katie Beers was released from the Hospital after a medical evaluation and would be assigned to a Foster Home while authorities decide who should have custody of her according to a Suffolk county source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Katie was found wednesday after John Esposito 43, a family Friend who reported her missing dec. 28, led police to her in a Bunker beneath a building on his property. The Man Katie matted Quot Uncle John Quot stood silently in Handcuffs during his 10-Minutc arraignment on second degree kidnapping charges. No plea was entered. Suffolk county District court judge Patrick Barton set bail at $500,000 and scheduled a hearing for tuesday. Esposito a building contractor could be sentenced to 25 years in prison if convicted. Esposito reported Katie missing after a birthday trip to a video Arcade. Police now say the Story was concocted. ,. Additional charges arc Likely when the Case is brought before a grand jury and two sources familiar with the investigation said Esposito sexually abused theman girl girl while holding her Cap tic. The sources refused to be identified. Katie was kept in a 6-by-7-foot Bunker 10 feet below a converted garage where she was sometimes chained at the neck. She could see police searching Esposito s Home Ona closed circuit television but her cries for help were never heard outside the Damp soundproof room prosecutor William Ferris said. Esposito Esposito took her food and water each night police said. They said she was in Good condition when found. Peter Cosgrove Suffolk county a police commissioner said Kab believed Esposito gave up Katie because he was irritated by the 24-hour police presence at his Home. "1 think what led to Success in the Case was we kept up the pressure. He  stand it a a said Cosgrove a if he intended to take her any other place he  carry it  tragic Saga of the cockroach kid new York a Katie Beers lost her childhood a year at a time m a tragedy More Likely to be found in dickensian London than suburban Long Island according to authorities and acquaintances. At 4, she was in the Street by herself a Skinny Waif dragging hefty baskets of her family a dirty clothes to the cleaners. At 6, she was cutting first Grade and wandering about at All hours often unwashed skimp ily dressed and smelling of cats. At 8, she was a social outcast jeered by other children As a the cockroach  and at 9, she was allegedly abducted by a family Friend and left to spend her 10th birthday in a locked subterranean cell. That was where police found Katie Beers on wednesday ending the Saga of the missing Ragamuffin. Katie was born in 1982, the daughter of Marilyn Beers a cab Driver and private nurse who had herself Crown up in a troubled dishevelled Home in the Long Island Community of West Islip. Beers never married and has said she s not sure who Katie s father was. She brought her baby from the Hospital to the House where she had grown up. Neighbors say it contained decades of rubbish. When Katie was 2 months old Beers abruptly left her with her godmother Linda Inghilleri who raised the child with assistance from her own Mother Beers Beers Mother and various relatives. Through the years Katie shuttled Between the Beers House and a series of apartments occupied by Inghilleri and her Boyfriend and eventual husband Sal. Katie got an allowance of $3 a week but by Many accounts she endured a form of indentured servitude. A she used to come in with her Little Wagon and soaps washing All the clothes for All the people in her House Quot Trudy Welsh an employee of the i aunty near the Beers House recalled thursday. A she said she did t have Many friends. A she was very thin rings under her eyes. She looked tired Alt the time. She used to drink the complimentary Coffee Here and id ask her Why. She said shed been drinking Coffee a  a neighbor. Dawn Moody called the Beers House to inquire about Katie she said she was told to mind her own business. Misfortune followed misfortune Sal Inghilleri suffered a heart attack forcing the Inghilleri and Katie to move into Beers House which now became crowded As she used to come in with her Little Wagon and soaps washing All the clothes for Alt the people in her House. She said she did no to have Many friends a a Trudy Welsh employee of a local laundry Well As filthy. Beers had to sell the House after she was threatened with foreclosure on a second mortgage. In 1990, police visited Katie a Home on a routine matter and reported the squalid conditions including pet pc pcs and Roaches to Suffolk county child welfare authorities. Caseworkers twice visited the House and began compiling a dossier. Although welfare officials have refused to discuss the Case citing strict state confidentiality Laws experts in the Field say the caseworkers inaction is understandable. While child welfare workers could have summarily removed Katie from her Home they would have had to justify such action in court. There two factors would have worked against them the preference especially in new York state in favor of keeping families together and the fact that several relatives including her Mother were eager to claim responsibility for Katie. About a year ago Beers and her Boyfriend took custody of Katie. Beers also accused Sal Inghilleri of having sexually abused Katie when they lived in West Islip he subsequently was arrested and ordered to stay away from the child. Vie has denied the charge and is scheduled to stand trial. Beers said at a news conference thursday that she had signed Over temporary custody of her daughter to Suffolk county on wednesday night but wants to get her Back. A i love her and can to wait for her to get Back Home Quot she said. There had been at least one relatively Bright Light in Katie s sordid life a a Uncle John Quot Esposito who had befriended her brother John and who sometimes took Katie to toy stores or game arcades. It was in the underground Bunker he built that police found Katie. Y poor families More Likely to split study says Washington apr poor parents Are nearly twice As Likely to break up As those with Money the government reported thursday in its first study of How financial hard times cause families to dissolve. One out of seven married couples below the poverty line separates or divorces. That compares to one out of 13 couples with higher incomes the census Bureau reported in a study that tracked families for two years in the 1980s. And when a marriage Breaks up three times out of four a Mother and her children who were above the poverty line Tumble below it the study found. In 1990, a married couple with two children was considered poor if the family earned less than $13,254 a year. Poverty ripped deepest into the fabric of Black family life. One poor Black couple in five split during a two year period. One poor White couple in eight split and one poor hispanic couple in  report gains in fight against alzheimer s from wire reports Federal researchers said thursday that they believed they had discovered a crucial step in How alzheimer a disease damages the brain and had identified two substances that showed Promise in stopping it a a the researchers found that amyloid the key protein involved in alzheimer disease bores holes in cell membranes allowing toxic Levels of Calcium to leak through. The studies were done in cells in test tubes. If the same process occurs in the living brain the excess Calcium would kill brain cells leading to the devastating symptoms of the disease. Alzheimer a has no known cause or cure. Approximately 100,000 americans die each year from the disease in which the brain degenerates and shrinks causing mental and physical disabilities. Ironically the substance that has raised suspicion As one of the causes of alzheimer so aluminium a was found in the same studies to Stop the amyloid drilling. So did a substance called trome Thamine which is used to adjust blood chemistry during cardiac  game discontinued Merrillville ind. A a software company has decided to Stop marketing a computer game about slavery after receiving angry complaints from parents in Indiana and elsewhere a spokesman says. The game called a Freedom Quot requires players to take on the roles of enslaved Blacks in the South in the 1830s. The players attempt to reach Freedom in the North after gathering As much food and Money As possible. Dean Kephart a spokesman for the Brooklyn Center Minn based software company Mech said wednesday that the company has decided to discontinue the game. A the reaction has been a Surprise Quot Kephart said. A we honestly had every Good  parents of children at Ficler elementary school met with administrators this week to demand that the game be discontinued. A a it a a disgrace Quot said Marian Anderson whose daughter attends the school. A the dialogue sounds like someone with a speech  one character named Grandfather Cato has lines written on the computer screen such As a i sees a Ninnin look in to eyes Chile. How can i help a after a slave is caught the player is told a you have been recaptured whipped and returned to your  remains identified Washington a the remains of another american missing in action since the Vietnam War have been identified the Pentagon said thursday. The announcement named the Man As air Force major Douglas c. Condit whose Home of record was Forest Grove Ore. He was lost in Vietnam in late 1967, he was 25 years old at the time. Vietnam repatriated Condit a remains last june after they were found by a joint vietnamese american search for missing  patient ailing Pittsburgh a physicians conducted a Biopsy thursday to try to find out Why a Baboon liver transplanted into a 62-year-old Man was not performing As expected. The unidentified recipient Hasni to regained full consciousness since the 1314-hour operation that ended Early monday. He has grasped his physicians fingers and blinked his eyes but has remained very groggy. The transplant at the University of Pittsburgh medical Center was necessary because hepatitis b severely scarred the Many Sliver. The patient remained in critical condition which is Normal for transplant patients in the Days following an operation. Without a transplant doctors said the patient would have died within 30 Days. Like the first patient the Man Wasny to a candidate for a human liver because hepatitis b would have destroyed another human liver. Researchers believe Baboons Are immune to the disease