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State Labor investigator accused of sex with child
Monday, June 2, 2008

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— State police today announced the arrest of a Department of Labor employee for allegedly having sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl.

Arthur Frank Durivage IV, 29, of Troy, faces a second-degree rape charge. He allegedly had sex with the girl three times in September in Watervliet.

Police said Durivage, an investigator with the state Department of Labor, maintained e-mail communications with the victim while at work using a state computer.

Durivage was arrested Friday and arraigned in Watervliet City Court and jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail.

This afternoon, the Department of Labor said Durivage had been placed on unauthorized leave without pay, and said it would review further disciplinary actions and await the outcome of the criminal case.


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June 2, 2008
3:01 p.m.

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schdygirl ( no real name given ) says...

1. If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.- 1 Corinthians 13
For those of you professing to use Christianity to support your reason for hate, SHAME ON YOU!
How about you worry about your own homes and your own families and your own sexuality (or lack there of) and let other people live according to how they feel is in their best interest. It is not your job to judge...you are exactly the type of people that Jesus was talking about and fighting against, you know the ones who thought they had all the answers and their truth was the only truth.
By your actions you are creating much more sin than homosexuals (not being judgmental and loving your neighbor is mentioned dozens of times while homosexuality is barely mentioned, and even when it was it was discussing rape, not consensual relationships). Why don’t you stop being sheep, do a little soul searching and maybe get some education. Spreading hate is one of the worst things you can do as a Christian. So maybe you should worry about your own judgment day, rather than those who are actually practicing Jesus’ words of love.

June 2, 2008
3:29 p.m.

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sunshine ( no real name given ) says...

You no what you can do with your religion.I dont think Jesus would want some scumbag getting a 13 yr old high and then having sex with her stealing her viginity and wrecking her life LOVE.

June 2, 2008
3:31 p.m.

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sunshine ( no real name given ) says...

How can a 13 yr old 7th grader concent to sex with a 28 yr old man you retard.

November 29, 2008
9:36 p.m.

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angelwings225 ( no real name given ) says...

I would like to start off by saying that it is very easy for people who read this article to automatically think that this man is dirt for what he is being accused of but what we all were told growing up was that there is two sides to every story and just because this man was accused of committing this crime does not mean he has done it. 13 year old girls are not like they were 10- 20 years ago. Many dress the tramps these days. It is very easy to cry rape when something is not going the way you planned. I know a friend where the same thing happened to him as with this man. He went to jail for it and years later the girl confessed that it was not true. She made the whole story up because she was in love with this man but he did not give her what she wanted. And for the comment above. A 13 year old is very capable of consenting to sex. Children are loosing there virginity at 10 and 11 years of age now. Girls are giving birth to babies as early as 10 years old. You may want to look around you because this is not the 70's or 80's anymore. Children these days are a hole other kind from all the past decades. And here is a good question, why did the girl come out with this almost a year after it happened? And this is for the mother......reading many articles on this damn you. As I believe she said in the newspaper " I knew she was sneaking out to see him." Another quote from the mother, " she is in a relationship with a boy her own age now". Any descent mother would not allow her 13 year old child to sneak out in the middle of the night especially knowing where she was going and any descent mother would not let her 13 year old daughter be in a relationship at that age. It is a mother's duty to do everything in there power to protect there child.Her mother should be punished for allowing her daughter to be in a situation where something like this could accur. Maybe someone should look at the type of family this child comes from before anything else. All I have to say is shame on you to the mother for allowing this to happen.

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