Ridgefield Park trucker named in child sex indictment

ONLY ON CVP: A 45-year-old truck driver had sex with a Ridgefield Park girl separate times beginning when she was 13, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack charges.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF*

Jerry DeMarco

03/29/2015 4:54 p.m.

Andrew J. Bates was arrested last May by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and village detectives after the girl’s mother contacted authorities and they interviewed the youngster.

Bates posted $200,000 bail two days later and was released from the Bergen County Jail.

The indictment charges him with digitally penetrating, molesting and trying to have intercourse with the girl between April 2012 and July 2013. Bates also is charged with impairing the morals of a minor and making her an abused or neglected child.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

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