Convicted teen rapist charged after girls at his apartment drink, take drugs

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Eerily similar to an incident that sent him to prison for nearly two years, a 37-year-old convicted sex offender from Hackensack is charged with plying two girls — 13 and 15 years old — with alcohol and drugs at his apartment.

Jerry DeMarco

02/23/2011 7:48 p.m.

Ivan McKinney (COURTESY: NJ DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS)

Ivan McKinney, a listed Megan’s Law offender, was released last August after serving 19 months for sexually assaulting two Passaic County teens who said he’d gotten them drunk. He is being held on $300,000 bail at the Bergen County Jail.

McKinney is charged with kidnapping and endangerment, Bergen County First Assistant Prosecutor William Galda told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Hackensack police arrested McKinney today after the girls this weekend told their parents of the alleged incident last week.

Authorities said they charged McKinney with kidnapping in addition to the endangerment counts because of their ages — as provided under state law.

McKinney was convicted of sexual assault three years ago, after two girls said he picked them up in Clifton, took them shopping, brought them to a Route 3 motel and had sex with them before taking them home in 2006, according to state criminal records. He was also convicted of cruelty and neglect for similar incidents involving young girls in Hackensack, records show.

This time around, authorities said, McKinney picked up two other girls in Passaic County and took them to his Hackensack apartment. After discovering what happened, Clifton police contacted their counterparts in Hackensack, who alerted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit.

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