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A Long Island judge who is the target of complaints from a victim’s advocacy group has been given other duties pending the findings of a state investigation.

State courts spokesman David Bookstaver says Suffolk County Family Court Judge Andrew Tarantino was reassigned. He said court policy prevented him from discussing details of judicial assignments.

Tarantino is the focus of a five-page complaint filed by the group Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center. They allege the judge improperly allowed a convicted sex offender to participate in overnight visitation with his own three children.

A message left Wednesday at the judge’s chambers seeking comment was not immediately returned.

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