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UPDATE: Lyft Driver Gets 7 Years For Fondling Pre-Teen Prospect Park Passenger Separate Times UPDATE: Lyft Driver Gets 7 Years For Fondling Pre-Teen Prospect Park Passenger Separate Times
Update: Lyft Driver Gets 7 Years For Fondling Pre-Teen Prospect Park Passenger Separate Times A former U.S. military member from Morris County who was convicted of sexually assaulting a Passaic County pre-teen while working as a Lyft driver was sentenced to seven years in state prison. Julio Mejia, 43, of Wharton also must register as a sex offender and remain under lifetime parole supervision, under the sentence handed down by Superior Court Judge Joseph A. Portelli in Paterson. Mejia rejected a plea deal after investigators said the underage Prospect Park girl told them he had sex with her after she took a Lyft ride in August 2019 and then again after several weeks of texting. He…

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Jurors Convict Paterson Senior Of Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting Girl, 10 Jurors Convict Paterson Senior Of Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting Girl, 10
Jurors Convict Paterson Senior Of Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting Girl, 10 Jurors in Paterson convicted a 66-year-old Ecuadorian national of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Julio Largo-Veletanga has remained jailed since city police seized him in May 2020. Detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said they then interviewed multiple witnesses, including the girl. She “reported being sexually abused by Mr. Largo-Veletanga on multiple occasions between February 2020 and May 2020 at her home in Paterson,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. All told, there were no fewer than four incidents in the three-month span, inves…

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Clifton Man Charged In Child Sex Case Takes Deal, Avoids Prison Clifton Man Charged In Child Sex Case Takes Deal, Avoids Prison
Clifton Man Charged In Child Sex Case Takes Deal, Avoids Prison A Clifton man avoided prison time when he admitted that he sexually abused a 15-year-old victim, authorities said Thursday. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said detectives from her Special Victims Unit began investigating Brian Guzman, 32, after receiving a tip from the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency in November 2019. They arrested him two months later after interviewing “multiple witnesses, including the victim, who reported that [he] inappropriately touched the child at his residence in Clifton in August 2019,” Valdes said. Guzman took a deal from prosecuto…

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by Jerry DeMarco