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Karl Weckstrom, Michele Weckstrom (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter)
During a court hearing in Hackensack yesterday, defense attorney James M. Doyle said he is filing a bid to sever charges against Michele Weckstrom from the case against Karl Weckstrom.
Then, he said, he’ll ask that the charges against her be dismissed.
Karl Weckstrom, 45, is accused of fondling and digitally penetrating the girl sometime between Jan. 1, 2010 and August 21, 2011, before she turned 10. He’s also charged with impairing the morals of a minor.
Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and borough police arrested the 6-foot-4-inch, 280-pound Weckstrom, an IT worker, on Oct. 25, 2013 after the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency alerted local authorities.
Last April, a grand jury in Hackensack returned an indictment that says Michelle Weckstrom, 43, “hindered apprehension or prosecution” by directing the alleged victim “not to tell anyone” of the crime “and / or taking no further action and / or alerting” her husband.
Karl Weckstrom remained free on $100,000 bail, posted four days after his arrest.
Michelle Weckstrom, a former Little Ferry school teacher who notes on her Twitter profile that she’s a “mom of 3 and wife to an IT rockstar,” remains free without bail.
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