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Daniel Baez began by massaging the back and rubbing the buttocks of the victim, who was at least 13 but under 16 at the time, an affidavit filed by a Hackensack police detective says.
When she tried to get away from him, Baez "grabbed the wrist of the victim with one hand and with his other hand rubbed his crotch on the outside of his pants [telling] the victim to touch his penis," it says.
Baez fled the country two weeks after the Aug. 30, 2019 incident, authorities said.
He was arrested in Florida on Dec. 17, 2020 and taken to the Orange County Jail before being extradited to New Jersey.
A judge in Hackensack last Wednesday ordered that Baez remain held in the county jail pending further court action after he was brought to Bergen County.
He's charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact and one of endangerment through sexual conduct with a child, records show.
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