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Douglas Bollinger, a Neptune City resident, is banned from having any contact with the victim and must permanently forfeit any future public employment and teaching certifications in the State of New Jersey. Bollinger pleaded guilty last November to endangering the welfare of a child, Billhimer said.
An investigation conducted by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit revealed that between February 2019 and August 2019, Bollinger - while employed in his official capacity as a teacher at the Ocean County Performing Arts Academy – engaged in inappropriate sexual contact with a student in both Point Pleasant Beach and Asbury Park, Billhimer said.
Bollinger was a teacher at the Grunin Performing Arts Academy, part of Ocean County Vocational Technical School (OCVTS). Bollinger was named the school’s Teacher of the Year for 2020-21, according to the Ocean County Vocational Technical Education Association. He worked as a theater instructor that school year.
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