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Another employee at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades Neil Klatskin Day Camp alerted a supervisor, who called Tenafly police, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.
They, in turn, alerted his Special Victims Unit.
Detectives interviewed “every child under [the teen’s] care,” three of whom “made disclosures involving inappropriate sexual touching,’ the prosecutor said.
They then took the boy into custody before releasing him to his parents pending a hearing in the Family Part of Superior Court in Hackensack for the juvenile equivalent of sexual assault and child endangerment charges.
A judge ordered that he wear an electronic monitoring bracelet until then.
The camp recently “instituted additional safeguards” to bolster “rigorous safety protocols” already in place, JCC officials said in a release.
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