Tennessee man brought to NJ on charges of sexually assaulting girl in Hackensack beginning 20 years ago

UPDATE: A Tennessee man waived extradition and was brought to New Jersey from Connecticut yesterday to face charges of sexually abusing a now-27-year-old woman at his previous home in Hackensack over the course of seven years, beginning when she was 7.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR*

Jerry DeMarco

09/02/2015 6:12 p.m.

Alex Safanova, 62, was taken into custody in Lebanon, CT last Wednesday after Special Victims Unit investigators tracked him to a family member’s home there from Dayton, TN, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said at the time.

Safanova, who is married, faces two counts of aggravated sexual assault and one of sexual assault by contact.

He was being held on $300,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

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