Its nocturnal attacks can comprise simple physical assault and/or poltergeist-like phenomena; but most feared is sexual assault and the sodomising of adult men and women.

Last November he was accused of sodomizing and sexually abusing a woman in a Manhattan hotel.

On Thursday, a group of adults in Brooklyn was charged with raping and sodomizing three children who had been returned to the family from foster care.

A Manhattan physician has been convicted of sodomizing a patient while she was sedated in his Central Park West office.

As Zed is sodomizing Marsellus on a pommel horse, Butch kills Maynard with a katana.

I would happily pay full price to play the PC version... nothing makes me drool more than the thought of sodomizing PS3 players with my mouse and keyboard.

In October, a Nassau County police officer, Jay Seifert, was charged with raping and sodomizing a 30-year-old woman after a traffic stop in North Woodmere.

Officer Volpe pleaded guilty to sodomizing Mr. Louima with the broomstick, and Officer Schwarz was convicted of helping and covering up his own role.

A Long Island priest pleaded guilty yesterday to sodomizing a teenage boy, wrapping up a case that first came to light before allegations about abusive priests began making headlines across the country.

The lawyer for Justin A. Volpe, the officer charged with sodomizing Mr. Louima, said yesterday, however, that Mr. Louima threatened his credibility by recanting the Giuliani claim.

Justin Volpe, who was convicted of sodomizing Mr. Louima with the stick, has testified that Officer Thomas Wiese was the one who escorted Mr. Louima to the bathroom.

Most of the goings-on at Caldicott were known but never spoken about, but a sexual scandal did erupt there in 1973, when a teacher named Martin Carson was caught sodomizing a 12-year-old boy, Alastair Rolfe.

The Senator referred to John Maynard Keynes, economist, as a "big homo" and compared President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act "to a painful sodomizing of the American public".

LEAD: A Bronx man and his wife have been arrested and accused of raping, sodomizing or beating nine of their children in a trash-strewn, unlighted apartment where they kept them virtually imprisoned for at least three years, the police said yesterday.

Mr. Catterson said Mr. Simmons was convicted of sodomizing a child in Brooklyn in 1984 and of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child in Florida in 1986 and went to prison for both crimes.