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SLEAZEBAG: NJ Case Worker Admits Groping Clients, Sexting Wank Pics, Threatening To Take Kids SLEAZEBAG: NJ Case Worker Admits Groping Clients, Sexting Wank Pics, Threatening To Take Kids
Sleazebag: NJ Case Worker Admits Groping Clients, Sexting Wank Pics, Threatening To Take Kids It’s about as low as someone who works in child welfare services can go. A now-former case worker with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families admitted groping women he was investigating, sending unwanted masturbation pics and threatening to have children taken from those who didn’t go out with him, authorities said on Friday. Gilberto Ortiz Jr., a 53-year-old bilingual family services specialist, told a mom he was investigating that he’d “help her” if she had a relationship with him, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. Ortiz warned the woman during a home visi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Human Trafficker Gets 50 Years For Forcing Girl, 17, Into Prostitution NJ Human Trafficker Gets 50 Years For Forcing Girl, 17, Into Prostitution
NJ Human Trafficker Gets 50 Years For Forcing Girl, 17, Into Prostitution A Trenton woman who cruelly forced an underage girl into prostitution must spend at least 20 years in state prison before she’ll be eligible for parole. Superior Court Judge Darlene J. Pereksta on Thursday sentenced Ashley Gardener, 32, for a series of jury convictions for human trafficking, promoting prostitution and child endangerment, among other crimes. Pereksta sentenced Gardener to 50 years altogether, 40% of which she must serve before she can seek a parole hearing.  It marked the final chapter in what authorities said was a prime example of a crime that occurs “in the shadows,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Child Protection Services Worker, 39, Killed By Stray Drive-By Bullet On Her Front Porch NJ Child Protection Services Worker, 39, Killed By Stray Drive-By Bullet On Her Front Porch
NJ Child Protection Services Worker, 39, Killed By Stray Drive-By Bullet On Her Front Porch A beloved New Jersey Department of Children and Families worker was killed by a stray bullet on her front porch in a drive-by Trenton shooting, authorities said. Vernetta McCray -- who worked in the department for more than a decade -- was bleeding from her head after being shot on the front porch of her Hampton Avenue home around 9 p.m. Friday, officials said. Police had been called to the  300 block of Walnut Street for reports of more than 20 rounds fired, police said. McCray, 39, was taken to the hospital where she was listed in critical condition, and pronounced dead Saturd…

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by Cecilia Levine
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AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids
Authorities: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids UPDATE: A man who authorities said brutally stabbed his girlfriend dead in her Dumont apartment before dawn Tuesday was captured by Closter police after he knocked on a local resident's door in the middle of the night not wearing pants or shoes and carrying their two young children in his arms. Jeffrey Daniels, 36, was charged with murder, child endangerment and illegal weapons possession in the slaying of Michelle Boccellari Burns hours earlier in the garden apartment they shared on Knickerbocker Road. Burns, a 36-year-old mother of three girls, had been stabbed several times in the head …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Child Services Worker Charged With Groping Client, Texting Her Masturbation Pics NJ Child Services Worker Charged With Groping Client, Texting Her Masturbation Pics
NJ Child Services Worker Charged With Groping Client, Texting Her Masturbation Pics A former caseworker for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families groped a mother he was assigned to investigate and texted her videos of himself masturbating, authorities charged. Gilberto Ortiz Jr., 50, “made sexual advances on the woman while warning her she was involved in a serious case of negligence” during home visits to the woman and her child last month, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Ortiz, a bilingual family services specialist from the Gloucester County town of Woodbury, said he’d “help her” if she had a relationship with him, Grewal added. He also touch…

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Teaneck Social Worker Charged With Collecting On Bogus Claims For Kids' Mental Health Services Teaneck Social Worker Charged With Collecting On Bogus Claims For Kids' Mental Health Services
Teaneck Social Worker Charged With Collecting On Bogus Claims For Kids' Mental Health Services A clinical social worker from Teaneck falsely billed the Medicaid program for mental health services she claimed she provided to at-risk children and adolescents, a state grand jury has charged. Gloria Andrade, 56, of Teaneck, was employed full-time as a social services specialist with the Township of Teaneck when she submitted the bogus claims while working a side job as a solo practitioner providing in-home counseling and therapy to children, adolescents, and their families in the NJ Department of Children and Families’ Intensive In-Community Services program (IICS), authorities said). “L…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting
Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting A state Division of Child Protection and Permanency worker shot and killed herself in her Paramus office Monday morning, authorities said. Responding to the 9:45 a.m. call, Paramus Emergency Medical Services took the 57-year-old victim from the Frisch Court office building just off Route 4 to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The agency -- formerly known as the Division of Youth & Family Services (DYFS) -- is responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect and, if necessary, arranging f…

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by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco
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Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting
Child Services Worker, 57, Commits Suicide At Paramus Office, 'Sister' Offices Assisting A state Division of Child Protection and Permanency worker shot and killed herself in her Paramus office Monday morning, authorities said. Responding to the 9:45 a.m. call, Paramus Emergency Medical Services took the 57-year-old victim from the Frisch Court office building just off Route 4 to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The agency -- formerly known as the Division of Youth & Family Services (DYFS) -- is responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect and, if necessary, arranging f…

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by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco
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Hackensack PD: Couple Shooting Heroin Had Two Toddlers In Car Hackensack PD: Couple Shooting Heroin Had Two Toddlers In Car
Hackensack PD: Couple Shooting Heroin Had Two Toddlers In Car A Washington Township father and mother had their two 3-year-olds in the backseat when Hackensack police said they caught them shooting heroin in their car. Narcotics Division detectives were checking a report that the couple was using drugs in a car Thursday night when they found Joseph Corcoran and Suzanne Laliberte, both 35, and the youngsters in a 2005 Nissan on Blauvelt Place near Hoboken Road, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. They also noticed several empty glassine envelopes of heroin which stamped "CAPTAIN AMERICA" on the ground outside the passenger door, as well as a hypoderm…

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by Jerry DeMarco