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Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kristin DeMarco formally read charges against Quashawn Nowlin of Lehigh Street of first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child under 13, second -degree sexual contact and impairing the morals of a minor during a brief court appearance in Hackensack.
The 5-foot-11, 200-pound Nowlin, standing beside defense attorney P.J. Koulikoros, shook his head as DeMarco read the charges. He didn’t speak.
Koulikoros entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf
An indictment returned against Nowlin last month says he forced the girl to give him oral sex and “touched or kissed” her breasts sometime between May and September of 2013.
He assaulted the girl no fewer than four times in that span, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said after members of his Special Victims Unit and Teaneck police arrested Nowlin in September.
Molinelli said the victim told her sister, who then alerted the girl’s mother. She, in turn, contacted the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P), which notified the unit, the prosecutor said.
Nowlin, who Mollinelli said is single and unemployed, remained held on $200,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, down from an original $300,000.
He’s due back in court March 16.
STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia
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