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Indictment: Palisades Park man repeatedly sexually assaulted teen

EXCLUSIVE: For two years, a 41-year-old Palisades Park man who last year participated in the town’s National Night Out against crime sexually assaulted a girl he knew, beginning when she was 14, an indictment returned in Hackensack alleges.

Photo Credit: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Although they didn’t have intercourse, the indictment says, Leo LoPiccolo on various occasions used his finger and tongue on the girl’s private parts, and also had her touch his.

The two-year relationship — from July 2009-2011 — was discovered by a staffer at New Milford High School who called local police, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said when LoPiccolo was arrested this past June.

LoPiccolo, 41, who Molinelli said is married and worked at the Home Depot in Hackensack, remains free on $100,000 bail.

The eight-count indictment charges him with aggravated sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault, three counts of aggravated sexual contact — by touching the victim’s breast and vagina and having her touch his penis — and a single count each of child neglect and impairing the morals of a minor.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

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