Nursing Aide, 53, Charged With Sexually Abusing Disabled Teen Patient At Rochelle Park Facility

A nursing assistant sexually abused a disabled 18-year-old patient at a Rochelle Park medical facility, said police who arrested him.

Rodney Mills
Photo Credit: *MUGSHOT: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK PD*

Jerry DeMarco

10/15/2019 12:01 p.m.

Rodney Mills, 53, of Irvington was arrested after an investigation by Rochelle Park police, assisted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said Tuesday.

Mills, a certified nursing assistant who’d been working at the facility a little over a year, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual contact and neglect in caring for the disabled male patient, DePreta said.

He remained held Tuesday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.

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