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MARDI GRAS EVENTS PAGE: 18 FREE • vol. 16 no. 7 |Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2017 artvoice.com | fb: artvoiceav | tw: @artvoiceig: artvoiceav Discover Buffalo FEATURE Metropolitan Living OPENHOUSESUN 1-3pm WEST SIDE: Owner Occupy or Investment! 3/1 Double on huge lot with ample parking & attic storage. Needs some rehab. 77 West, ‘Big Al’ Cutaia gets 25 to life $149,000. Brandon Hernandez, 843-6980(c) TONAWANDA: 4BR Ranch. Sweet Home schls. Hrdwd fl rs, eat-in kitchen & full bsmt. 1122 Woodstock, $173,900. Dragica “Dee” Stare, for sex assault of child 316-9995(c) NEWLISTINGS It will be a long time, maybe never, before Murphy, Big Al stood accused by a girl and WEST SIDE: NEW! Huge lot (47 x 122’) with alley access zoned for mult. residence. 431 Busti, $40,000. Brandon Hernandez, 843-6980(c) Alfonso ‘Big Al’ Cutaia rides again. a teen of committing acts to both, separate- BYAPPOINTMENT Formerly of North Tonawanda, Lockport, ly, repeatedly, grotesquely, for runs of three years, five years apart. ALLENTOWN: Rentals. New 1BRs w/ in-unit W/D, hrdwd fl rs, A/C, Pendleton, Wheatfield, Wilson, and, recently parkg, steps to Med Campus. 481 Franklin, $1,250. Mark D. DiGiam- Niagara County jail, Big Al, 41, was sen- Niagara County Assistant District Attorneys paolo, 887-3891(c) tenced to 25 years to life for sexually abusing Robert A. Zucco and Cheryl L. Nichols pros- AMHERST: Rental. 3BR lower. Clarence schls, HE frnc & windows, a child. ecuted. Nichols told the jury Cutaia abused AC, shared sun rm, ½ driveway use. 75 McKinley, $975+. Kiersten the girl in North Tonawanda and continued Minnick, 868-6613(c) There was a spate of pictures posted on AMHERST: 4BR, 2 full & 3 half BA w/ 3700 sq. ft. LR, DR, fam rm, Facebook now deleted – of Cutaia, in when he moved to Wilson. eat-in kit & 1st fl r lndry. Cov’d patio & 2car garage. 72 Four Seasons his leather vest, back patch, pins and his “He made her ‘pinky promise’”, said Nichols, W, $379,000. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) “Thunder” moniker patch, sometimes with wiggling her finger, “not to tell anyone.” DELAWARE DIST: Spect. views from 10th fl r 2-story 3BR co-op w/ terrace, formal DR, hi-end kit, bonus rm w/ full bth, 2 parkg spaces. 925 children seated behind him on his bike at Cutaia abused the young man, they said, in Delaware #10B, $699,000. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) big bikers’ events. He rode his bike as if Lockport in 2006. Then when Big Al moved DELAWARE DIST: Multi-use bldg on Gates Cir! 1st fl r ofc, 2nd fl r he owned the road and it would never end. to Pendleton, he didn’t stop, not until 2009, apt & 3rd fl r apt. Also, part fi n 3rd fl r cld be fi nished as 3rd legal apt. Everybody knew Big Al. Parkg for 8. 54 Gates Cir, $774,900. Frank Cannata, 880-6077(c) when the 12-year-old told his grandmother. DELAWARE DIST: 4BR 4BA. Cherry kit w/ concrete counters; 1st fl r She was seven years old and it was three It stopped, so what would it accomplish to den (or BR), mstr w/ dressing rm & bth, 3rd fl r w/ bth. Newer mechs. 78 years ongoing before she told her dad and he tell police except the ruination of lives – the Summer, $439,000. Susan D. Lenahan, 864-6757(c) told deputies who made an arrest. boy’s too? DELAWARE DIST: For Rent or Sale! 3BR 2.5BA stunning co-op re- done top to bottom w/ gourmet kit. 2gar space w/ sale; 1 space w/ rental Between arraignment and trial, Big Al, Assistant Public Defender Christopher A. ($185/mo extra for 2nd space). 925 Delaware #2C, $599,900 or $2,500/ unable to make his $100,000 bail, sat in Privateer was assigned to represent Big Al. mo. incl. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) jail, aloof from prisoners, avoiding guards. ELMWOOD VLG: 4BR 2.5BA Victorian. Grand foyer w/ orig. wd- Of the girl, “The child was prodded to give wrk. Lrg LR w/ pocket doors to DR. Kit w/ granite. Fin. 3rd fl r w/ bth. Nervous, trembling. Wondering if he’d ever answers,” Privateer said, suggesting prose- 128 Highland, $439,900. Susan Lenahan, 864-6757(c) get out. In prison, murderers get respect but cutors tailored false words to comport with GATES CIRCLE: 3BR 4BA magnifi cent condo. 3900+ sf. LR leads child molesters never. guilt of the accused man. “There have been to priv. terrace, relaxing den w/ wbfp, formal DR w/ built-ins, kit w/ Big Al loved to give children rides on his bike. granite & in-unit lndry rm. 33 Gates #4AB, $950,000. Susan Lenahan, After his arrest, publicity came, and a young changes in her testimony over the course of 864-6757(c) and Tina Bonifacio, 570-7559(c) man, 19, known well to Big Al, came forward time,” the lawyer said. For two-weeks, six men and six women sat HAMBURG: Investment Opp! 2/2 Double. Eat-in kits, formal DRs to tell how it had happened to him when he While, if it were true he had abused the boy on the jury and listened. After six hours of & LRs. Lrg gar for storage. Sale incl. adj. commerc. lot! 4275 Clark, was nine and rode with Big Al. deliberations, they found Alphonso Cutaia $141,000. Dragica “Dee” Stare, 316-9995(c) and they never told on Big Al, then perhaps HAMBURG: 4BR 2BA on lrg lot. Hrdwd fl rs, new bth, upd. kit, new A year went by and the trial came. In the the little girl would not have seen the mon- ‘not guilty’ of abusing the boy – but ‘guilty’ windows. 4078 Beaubein, $224,900. Tom 574-8825(c) Niagara County courtroom of Judge Mathew ster. But why didn’t they tell? Was it all a lie? of abusing the girl. LARKIN DIST: 3/2 Double for Owner Occ or Invest near Larkinville. Newer elect, furnc, glass block windows & HWTs. Fenced yard. 134 Seymour, $74,900. Katherine “Katie” Sorrentino, 715-3677(c) NO. BUFFALO: Rental. 2+BR 2BA duplex unit w/ wbfp, dbl LR, formal DR. Upd. applncs. 53 Huntington, $1,295+ util. Robin Barrell, proud member of 986-4061(c) ORCHARD PK: Roomy 4BR 2BA on wooded lot. Sold as is. 5128 Ellicott Rd, $139,000. Christopher Lavey, 480-9507(c) [email protected] RIVERSIDE: Solid 3/2 Double on a corner lot with 1 car garage. Some EDITORIAL GENERAL MANAGER CONTRIBUTORS SALES Calendar updates. 868 Tonawanda St, $67,000. Dragica “Dee” Stare, 316-9995(c) Publisher Dr. Chitra Selvaraj Tony Farina, Javier Bustillos, Greg Ipolito : 716-380-5303 [email protected] SO. BUFFALO: Rental. Upd. 2BR on 2nd fl oor with parking space & Jamie Moses Jan Jezioro, James Hufnagel, Dr. Chitra Selvaraj: 716 534-0771 Art /Artviews attic storage. New carpet, kitchen fl oor & paint. No pets, no smoking. Editor-In-Chief DEPUTY MANAGER & Frank Dux, Roger Stone, Tony [email protected] 53 Buffum St, $700+. Dragica “Dee” Stare, 316-9995(c) Frank Parlato GENERAL COUNSEL Farina, Austin Harig, Mike CIRCULATION Web/Production WEST SIDE: Charming move-in ready Carriage Hse. Kit w/ granite, Theater Editor Darryl McPherson Hudson, James Ostrowski, Nate Sharon Kaiser [email protected] 1stfl r lndry, 1st fl r BR or den, newer mechs incl. furnc, elect, plumb- Anthony Chase McMurray, Joseph Barrett Classifieds ing & windows. Off-st parking! 226 Pennsylvania, $195,000. Susan Calendar Editor Publisher's Assistant Editorial [email protected] Lenahan, 864-6757(c) Moose Jr. Karen Fleig P.O. Box 695, buffalo, ny 14205 | artvoice.com | 716.881.6604 | classified ads 716.881.6124 advertising: [email protected] 716 534-0771 • [email protected] 716-380-5303 431 DELAWARE AVE. BUFFALO, NY Copyright © by Artvoice Reporter, 2016. Artvoice is published in association with the 716-819-4200 Niagara Falls Reporter, South Buffalo News and Front Page 2 Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2017 | artvoice.com FEATURE On Your Side & In Your Court Big Al had a sudden change of lifestyle when he was arrested for sexually molesting a little girl. Judge Murphy sentenced him to 25 years to the promise of candy or a summer night ride life. with Big Al, then the hairy hands and putrid Ahead of Big Al is a steel, razor wire, and breath and the dark room, as the door closes. a concrete house. He will be isolated; no Big Al saw a fork in the road and jumped contact with the world. Locked in a cell, the wrong way. If we see him again, decades sniveling, craven. At the bottom of the pris- from now, he will be pale, old, broken man. on barrel is the spineless sex offender. He Judge Murphy did all he could by sequester- can slither out his cell to the prison chapel ing him in a concrete house until he is bent and carry his Bible, but his days of pin- or dead. kie promises and keeping secrets are gone. Of burglars, embezzlers, arsonists, robbers, A murderer can be forgiven; even the heroin blackmailers, extortionists, murderers, and dealer who recklessly ruined a hundred chil- even those who sell drugs to the young, he is dren, made them addicts, got them addicted, the lowest scum. destroyed their youth, can repent, and we forgive, but the molester of a child, there is The prison guards are his enemies, every something in our nature that won’t let him prison official, all staff, an enemy.