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Rockland County Jail Sergeant Facing 51 Child Exploitation Charges Following Cyber Tip: DA
A 44-year-old sergeant at the Rockland County Jail is facing over 50 charges of possessing and promoting alleged child sexual abuse material, authorities announced. Daniel Dworkin, a corrections officer sergeant, was arrested Thursday, Nov. 21, following an investigation sparked by a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, according to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II. Dworkin is charged with 51 counts each of promoting and possessing a sexual performance by a child. A search of his home and digital devices reportedly uncovered disturbing…
Police & Fire
Atlantic City Mayor, Superintendent Indicted For Violent Abuse Of Daughter: Prosecutors
Atlantic City's mayor and schools superintendent were indicted after being accused of physically and emotionally abusing the couple's teen daughter, authorities said. A grand jury indicted Mayor Marty Small Sr., 50, and Dr. La'Quetta Small, 47, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, the Atlantic City Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. They were originally charged in the case on Monday, Apr. 15. Investigators said the couple violently abused their then-15-year-old daughter several times in December 2023 and January. In one incident, Mayor Small was accused of knocking her unconsc…
Police & Fire
Accused Child Molester From Cliffside Park Held For ICE
A married construction worker from Cliffside Park who's accused of sexually assaulting a preteen is being held for federal authorities, jail records show. Delfino Simon-Roca, 56, was charged with sexual assault and child endangerment following a month-long investigation that began with a tip from the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The prosecutor’s detectives arrested him last Tuesday, Nov, 21, and sent him to the Bergen County Jail, Musella said. Simon-Roca, who’s listed in jail records as a Guatemalan national, has remained t…
Police & Fire
NJ Child Services Imposter Shows Up At Victim's Doorstep, Blasts Her With Pepper Spray: Police
A 24-year-old New Jersey woman was arrested and charged on Tuesday, Oct. 10, after she blasted a woman with pepper spray while impersonating a child protection agent, authorities said police said. On Saturday, Sept. 30, Maplewood police responded to Brown Street where a woman had received a call from Widda Deneus claiming to be from the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, Maplewood police said. After the phone call, Deneus showed up at the woman's front door and asked to come inside, police said. The woman refused since Deneus did not present any identification and was not ac…
News
Dance Teacher From CT Swapped Nude Pics, Sought Meet With Bergen Minor: Prosecutor
A Connecticut event planner and dance instructor known as "Glamorous Piti" was arrested and charged with exchanging pornographic images and having sexually explicit chats with an underage student in Bergen County. Edison Bueno-Tenempaguay, 28, of Danbury has been held in the Bridgeport, CT Correctional Center, pending extradition to New Jersey, since his arrest last Friday, March 17, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of the prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit earlier this month “received information that a child from Bergen County was being engaged in conversations on social me…
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5-Year-Old Child Found Shivering In PJs On Busy Hasbrouck Heights Street Corner
A child in her pajamas was found alone and shivering on a busy Hasbrouck Heights street corner Friday morning, authorities said. Officers responding to multiple calls on Jan. 27 found the unaccompanied 5-year-old at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Terrace Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights Police Lt. John A. Behr said. "She was cold but otherwise OK," he said. Neighbors emerged from their homes to point them to the child's home, the lieutenant said. Her father arrived at the home a short time later, he said. Detectives were dispatched to the home, collected information and forwarded it to the …
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Ex-Police Chief Found Guilty Of Raping Girl, 6, With Buddy Hundreds Of Times For Years: AG
A former small-town Pennsylvania police chief has been found guilty of raping a young girl with his friend several times a month for years, authorities announced. A jury rendered the guilty verdict against former Weissport Police Chief Brent Getz, who was charged in March 2019, PA Attorney General Shapiro announced Friday, March 11. ** WARNING: The following news report contains graphic and disturbing scenarios ** His co-defendant, Gregory Wagner, of Lehighton, previously pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Getz. Both Getz and Wagner will be sentenced at a later date. C…
Police & Fire
NJ Boy, 4, Found Unresponsive After Falling From Sixth Story Window
A 4-year-old boy who was found unresponsive after falling from sixth-story window in Newark was hospitalized Friday, authorities said. The incident occurred just before 2:20 p.m. from a building on Oxford Street near Raymond Boulevard, Newark Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara said. The child was transported to University Hospital for treatment and was reportedly in stable condition. The New Jersey Department of Child Protection and Placement responded to the scene. The incident is under investigation by the Newark Police Division Special Victims Unit.
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Judge Releases Paterson Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting One Child In Front Of Another
A judge on Thursday released a Paterson man charged with sexually abusing a 13-year-old child in front of an 8-year-old, authorities said. Mario E. Hernandez, 54, was arrested following an investigation by detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes’s Special Victims Unit. The unit was alerted by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency that the teen was being sexually abused, Valdes said. Detectives interviewed both children as well as others, the prosecutor said. The older child reported being sexually assaulted by Hernandez last fall, she said, adding tha…
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Prosecutor: Son Of Paterson Man Charged With Child Sex Assault Made Victim Change Story
The son of a Paterson man accused of sexually abusing a child was arrested on witness tampering charges, authorities said. Ramon Cabrera, 41, made the victim retract sex abuse allegations against Juan Cabrera-Gonzalez in a video that he recorded, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said Wednesday. Cabrera’s father was charged with several sex-related offenses in May 2019 after detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office investigated a report by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency that a child in his care was being sexually abused, Valdes said. The Special…
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Alumnus Claims Englewood Public School Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago
A relatively new law in New Jersey allowed a man to sue the Englewood school district for what he said was sexual abuse by teachers more than 50 years ago. The man identified as “D.H.” in court papers contends that he was groomed as a victim, beginning when an Engle Street School teacher tackled and held him down on a 6th-grade overnight trip to Montreal in 1967. The teacher "held him down with the full weight of his body," the plaintiff contends. The same teacher then got him and other students to drink booze and smoke cigarettes with him in his apartment, the suit alleges. The teacher -…
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NJ Child Protection Caseworker Admits Producing Porn Of Underage Boy In His Care
A former New Jersey child services caseworker will spend at least 15 years in federal prison after admitting this week that he took pornographic images of an underage boy in his care. Kayan Frazier, 28, of Somers Point, joined the state Department of Child Protection and Permanency after he was fired as a substitute teacher in an Atlantic City school following an investigation of what authorities said was questionable conduct with male students. It was unclear how he got the state job, given concerns that district officials had expressed over Frazier having a boy sleep overnight i…
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NYC Mom Who Fled With Young Daughter After Infant Son Died Found At South Hackensack Motel
EXCLUSIVE: A Queens woman who went missing with her 2-year-old daughter after the NYPD began investigating the death of her infant son was located Thursday afternoon at a South Hackensack motel, Daily Voice has learned. South Hackensack and Hackensack police found Carla Garriques at the Travelodge by Wyndham off Route 46 after the NYPD pinged her cellphone there, law enforcement sources said. Garriques was with her 2-year-old daughter, who was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in the custody of the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, they said. No charges had bee…
Police & Fire
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: Jersey Shore Meeting Of YouTuber Posing As Girl, 14, And Older Man Goes Viral
A YouTube video made by a man who said he posed as an underage girl to arrange a meeting with an online predator at a Jersey Shore pizzeria has gone viral. It also brought a warning from a top law enforcement official about playing vigilante. ****** UPDATE: Detectives arrested a 33-year-old Jersey Shore man on luring and attempted sexual assault charges after a YouTube creator lured him into a meeting by posing as a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/ocean/police-fire/prosecutor-authorities-nab-accused-jersey-shore-child-predator-snared-by-youtuber/78431…
Business
Starbucks To Block Porn On Public WiFi
Starbucks is rolling out a new tool that it says will help prevent customers from watching porn in its stores sometime next year. "To ensure the Third Place remains safe and welcoming to all, we have identified a solution to prevent this content from being viewed within our stores and we will begin introducing it to our US locations in 2019," a Starbucks representative told Business Insider. The move comes after years of pressure from a petition launched by internet safety group Enough is Enough, which had garnered more than 26,000 signatures as of Wednesday. The organization's CEO, Donna …
Police & Fire
Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting
A state Division of Child Protection and Permanency worker shot and killed herself in her Paramus office Monday morning, authorities said. Responding to the 9:45 a.m. call, Paramus Emergency Medical Services took the 57-year-old victim from the Frisch Court office building just off Route 4 to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The agency -- formerly known as the Division of Youth & Family Services (DYFS) -- is responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect and, if necessary, arranging f…
Police & Fire
Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting
A state Division of Child Protection and Permanency worker shot and killed herself in her Paramus office Monday morning, authorities said. Responding to the 9:45 a.m. call, Paramus Emergency Medical Services took the 57-year-old victim from the Frisch Court office building just off Route 4 to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The agency -- formerly known as the Division of Youth & Family Services (DYFS) -- is responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect and, if necessary, arranging f…
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