Former Upper Saddle River man, 71, sexually abused girl, 9, indictment alleges

ONLY ON THE PILOT: A 71-year-old former Upper Saddle River man was indicted this week on charges of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl.

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Jerry DeMarco

06/08/2013 2:30 p.m.

Patrick Henry Gilberts, who is married, has been held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail since being extradited last December from Gainesville, Fla., where he’d moved.

Gilberts’ Florida mugshot

The seven-count indicdtment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack accuses Gilberts of sexually assaulting the now-13-year-old girl in a variety of ways, including sodomy and fellatio.

The girl went to authorities last winter, and an arrest warrant was drawn up, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said.

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