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Columbia University VP Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen At Bergen Home Columbia University VP Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen At Bergen Home
Columbia University VP Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen At Bergen Home A Columbia University vice president who lives in Bergen County was charged with sexually assaulting a pre-teen. Borough police arrested Marcelo Velez, 56, at his home after they “received information that [he] engaged in sexual acts with a child under the age of 13 while in Woodcliff Lake,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Tuesday. An investigation by Musella’s Special Victims Unit led to charges of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault and a charge of child endangerment through sexual contact against Velez, who is Columbia’s vice president of university facilit…