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‘RoastMaster,’ NJ Native Jeff Ross Accused Of Sexual Relationship With Teenage Girl ‘RoastMaster,’ NJ Native Jeff Ross Accused Of Sexual Relationship With Teenage Girl
‘RoastMaster,’ NJ Native Jeff Ross Accused Of Sexual Relationship With Teenage Girl Comedy Central’s “RoastMaster General" and North Jersey native Jeff Ross has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Born in Springfield Township and raised in Newark and Union, Ross is known for hosting insult-themed comedy roasts of celebrities including Bob Saget, Donald Trump, James Franco, Justin Bieber and Rob Lowe. In a public Facebook page named “Iwas15hewas33,” 15-year-old Jessica Radtke describes her alleged relationship with Ross, which began when the teen worked as an under-the-table receptionist and hostess at the Boston Comedy Club in New York Cit…

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by Valerie Musson
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Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90 Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90
Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90 Faced with footage from a hidden camera, a home health aide from North Bergen admitted that she abused a 90-year-old patient in the bedridden woman’s Clifton home, authorities said Tuesday. Emma Llanes, 57, “put a cloth over the patient's face without reason, grabbed [her] by the back of the neck and pushed the patient’s head forward, slapped [her] legs and failed to assist the patient while getting dressed,” a complaint filed by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) says. The footage was captured by a hidden camera that the victim’s family obtained from the DCA’s Safe Care Cam …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Comic Chris D'Elia Accused Of Making Advances Toward Teen Girls NJ Comic Chris D'Elia Accused Of Making Advances Toward Teen Girls
NJ Comic Chris D'Elia Accused Of Making Advances Toward Teen Girls Funnyman and Montclair native Chris D'Elia is accused of making advances toward teenage girls when he was in his early 30s. Simone Rossi posted screenshots of emails she said D’Elia, now 40, sent her in 2014 and 2015 resurfaced Tuesday night. Rossi's screenshots from July 2014 show D'Elia asking for a photo of her -- she sent him a panda bear. The following January, D'Elia asked Rossi if she wanted to meet up while he was in Tampa, AZ, the screenshots show. Rossi said the actor knew she was in high school at the time, as her Instagram account that he apparently asked to see and later bega…

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by Cecilia Levine
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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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by Jerry DeMarco
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LAWSUIT: Alleged Victim Of Teacher's Aide Sex Assault Suing Hackensack Schools LAWSUIT: Alleged Victim Of Teacher's Aide Sex Assault Suing Hackensack Schools
Lawsuit: Alleged Victim Of Teacher's Aide Sex Assault Suing Hackensack Schools A woman who says she was a victim of sexual misconduct by a South Hackensack School District teacher's aide is now suing the district and two of its officials who she says should have taken steps to end the sexual relationship, NorthJersey.com reports. The suit stems from the arrest of Philip Cerone of Maywood, charged in October 2017 with "sexual assault by a supervisor" of a juvenile between 16-17 years old and "child endangerment by sexual contact," according to jail records. He has since been sentenced to five years of probation and surrendered his teaching license after pleading guilty…

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by Valerie Musson
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Ex-Bergen, Passaic, Essex Teacher Admits Sex Trysts With Students Ex-Bergen, Passaic, Essex Teacher Admits Sex Trysts With Students
Ex-Bergen, Passaic, Essex Teacher Admits Sex Trysts With Students Jury selection for her trial was under way when a former teacher in Bergen, Passaic and Essex counties admitted having sexual encounters with male students in Maplewood, authorities said. In exchange for her guilty plea to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact, Nicole Dufault, 40, of Bloomfield, will be sentenced to five years in state prison, among other penalties. Authorities arrested the divorced mother of two in September 2014 on charges of aggravated sexual assault against several students at Columbia High School, where she’d been a language arts teacher for nine years. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Pascack Valley Social Worker, 39, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Paramus Private HS Student Pascack Valley Social Worker, 39, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Paramus Private HS Student
Pascack Valley Social Worker, 39, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Paramus Private HS Student A clinical social worker from Washington Township was charged with having sex with an underage student from a private Paramus High School. Tara Cardinale, a 39-year-old primary therapist, "invited the student to her residence,  where they engaged in sexual activity," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Tuesday. Records show Cardinale, who worked at the Alliance Academy, is accused of doing it twice with the same student. Cardinale remained held in the Bergen County Jail after being arrested Friday on charges of child endangerment through sexual contact and criminal sexual contact. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Indictment: Jersey Shore Officer Schedules Sex With Undercover Detective Posing As Girl, 15 Indictment: Jersey Shore Officer Schedules Sex With Undercover Detective Posing As Girl, 15
Indictment: Jersey Shore Officer Schedules Sex With Undercover Detective Posing As Girl, 15 A suspended Jersey Shore police officer seeking sex with a 15-year-old girl arranged a tryst with what turned out to be an undercover investigator, an indictment returned Wednesday charges. Richard C. Conte, 48, of Farmingdale, used his work phone at the Howell Township Police Department to chat with the investigator with the New Jersey Regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Although the investigator “repeatedly indicated that ‘she’ was 15 years old,” Conte “continued to chat with her online and email her,” claiming that he was o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Imprisoned Hackensack Child Molester Charged With Stalking Imprisoned Hackensack Child Molester Charged With Stalking
Imprisoned Hackensack Child Molester Charged With Stalking A sex offender from Hackensack serving time in state prison for repeatedly molesting a local girl was charged with stalking, records show. In doing so, Favio F. Maldonado violated a no-contact order, according to county records. Maldonado, a 35-year-old former customer service representative, was sentenced to a mandatory minimum of nearly seven years in July 2018 for molesting the victim over the course of more than a year, beginning when she was nine. The Honduran native was arrested following an investigation that began when the girl told authorities in 2014 that he'd touched her over and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Woman Tells Jury Former Valley Hospital Cardiologist Groped Her During Exam Woman Tells Jury Former Valley Hospital Cardiologist Groped Her During Exam
Woman Tells Jury Former Valley Hospital Cardiologist Groped Her During Exam One of six female patients who accused a former The Valley Hospital cardiologist of groping them during exams told her story in Passaic County Superior Court this week. The 57-year-old Bergen County woman alleged John Strobeck, 72, of Hawthorne, slipped his hand onto her breast for five-to-eight seconds during a 2012 examination, NorthJersey.com reports. The woman said she was alone in an exam room with Strobeck, former chief of cardiology at the Ridgewood hospital, when the incident occurred. Wearing a blouse and a bra, the woman was asked a few questions about her condition as the p…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Teacher At Millburn High Tried To Seduce Student, Authorities Say Teacher At Millburn High Tried To Seduce Student, Authorities Say
Teacher At Millburn High Tried To Seduce Student, Authorities Say An English teacher at Millburn High School has been charged with endangering the welfare of one of his students after he repeatedly made sexually suggestive comments to her during the past school year, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said Friday.  Joseph Pedulla, 57, of Monroe, appeared in court for the first time Friday.  According to authorities, Pedulla began directing "inappropriate communications" towards the female student, including sexual "overtures." The girl reported the alleged conduct to Millburn police, the prosecutor's office said.  Pedulla earned more tha…

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by Paul Milo
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Suit Claims Former Linden Minister Performed Sex Acts During Exorcisms Suit Claims Former Linden Minister Performed Sex Acts During Exorcisms
Suit Claims Former Linden Minister Performed Sex Acts During Exorcisms The prominent Union County cleric who stepped down from his post at a Linden church after being accused of sexual misconduct is being sued by his alleged victims, MyCentralJersey reported Wednesday. The Rev. Dr. William Weaver, who was the minister at Linden Presbyterian Church for four decades, was facing a church trial when he renounced his jurisdiction in January. Last month, three men were quoted in a news story accusing Weaver of performing non-consensual sex acts on them during exorcism rituals. The men, all of whom were identified by name in the article, said Weaver recommended exorc…

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by Paul Milo