Gun-rap rapist gets sprung to live with ma - at day care
Gun-rap rapist gets sprung to live with ma - at day care By NANCIE L. KATZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A convicted rapist busted two weeks ago on weapons charges was freed yesterday by a Brooklyn judge to go live with his mother, who runs a day care center at her home - a move that outraged probation officials. Cornelius Phillips, 21, had been detained since Dec. 23 for allegedly violating his probation by getting charged with possession of two guns and resisting arrest, officials said. At a hearing yesterday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Anne Feldman refused to keep Phillips behind bars, instead ordering him to go live with his mother, who operates a day care center on Pine St. in City Line. "This is outrageous," said city Probation Department spokesman Jack Ryan. "He is a sex offender living in a nursery school with guns!" Ryan's outburst followed in a testy court hearing when Probation Officer Greg Kuziw exhorted Feldman to remand Phillips, charging the ex-con was allegedly buying guns when he was caught. Cops saw Phillips and a pal outside 342 Fountain Ave. in East New York with two 9-mm. pistols that they tossed when a police officer came after them, a criminal complaint said. Feldman had sentenced Phillips to probation in 2003 after he pleaded guilty to first-degree rape in a gang assault on a 15-year-old girl, law enforcement sources said. Yesterday, Feldman scolded Phillips but ordered him to live in New York at his mother's home. "We have an objection to him even staying there!" Kuziw said, referring to the day care center. "This defendant is on probation for rape!" "I know more about this case than you do!" Feldman snapped back. Yesterday, Ryan said his agency was backing city and state calls for tougher gun laws following the fatal shootings of two cops late last year. "We agree with the governor and the mayor that people arrested for crimes with guns should be taken off the street and put in jail. This is a person already with a criminal record on probation," he said. "We intend to come down very hard on any probationer arrested for anything involving guns."With Jonathan Lemire Originally published on January 5, 2006 http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/380285p-322798c.html

He is a sex offender living in a nursery school with guns!" OMG this is NOT right at all! What are they thinking???