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Teacher's Aide Arrested After Arranging Sex With Boy, 14: North Arlington PD Teacher's Aide Arrested After Arranging Sex With Boy, 14: North Arlington PD
Teacher's Aide Arrested After Arranging Sex With Boy, 14: North Arlington PD A 24-year-old teacher’s aide from Bloomfield was arrested after authorities said he arranged to have sex with a 14-year-old North Arlington boy. Don R. Knight-Powell, 24, had been communicating online before making the arrangements, North Arlington Police Lt. Michael Horton said. He was arrested by North Arlington police on luring charges a short time later and sent to the Bergen County Jail. A judge in Hackensack ordered him released the next day. Knight-Powell made local news last year with a personal story of “trauma and triumph as a gay black man” whose adoptive parents rejected him be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Jersey Shore Man Seeks Sex With Teenage Girl, Hooks Up With Law Enforcement Agent: Prosecutor Jersey Shore Man Seeks Sex With Teenage Girl, Hooks Up With Law Enforcement Agent: Prosecutor
Jersey Shore Man Seeks Sex With Teenage Girl, Hooks Up With Law Enforcement Agent: Prosecutor A 66-year-old man from Long Branch, who allegedly was seeking sex with a 13-year-old girl, was instead arrested by law enforcement in a joint probe with the FBI. Samuel H. Christopher, 66, is charged with luring, attempted sexual assault of a minor, child endangerment and attempted criminal sexual contact with a minor, according to Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey. The investigation began earlier this summer, when Christopher allegedly engaged in conversations with an undercover officer online, believing the officer to be a teenage girl, Linskey said. Christopher allegedly ma…

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by Jon Craig
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4X Dating App Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of NJ Teen Girl Found Dead In Carriage House 4X Dating App Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of NJ Teen Girl Found Dead In Carriage House
4X Dating App Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of NJ Teen Girl Found Dead In Carriage House A serial killer recently sentenced to 160 years in state prison for luring and killing three women he met online and attempting the same with a fourth has been arrested in a fifth case that had not been solved until now. Khalil A. Wheeler Weaver has been formally accused of strangling 15-year-old Mawa Doumbia, of Newark, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, announced. The 15-year-old Newark girl had last been seen by her dad and sister Oct. 7, 2016, as she was leaving her home. Her decomposed body was found on the second floor of an old carriage house on Main Street in …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Used Facebook To Lure Young Out-Of-State Girl Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Used Facebook To Lure Young Out-Of-State Girl Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen
Jersey Shore Man, 68, Who Used Facebook To Lure Young Out-Of-State Girl Gets 7 Years In Fed Pen A 68-year-old Monmouth County man who lured an out-of-state girl to his home after posing as a young boy was sentenced Monday to a plea-bargained seven years in federal prison for getting her to send him pornographic images of herself. Local authorities had removed the child from the Union Beach home of Herman Christopher Jensen when the FBI began investigating his online activities. They soon learned that Jensen had assumed the identity of a 17-year-old boy named Kevin Bennett on Facebook “in order to entice and solicit [the girl] to send nude and sexually explicit images over the internet…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Planned Sex With 15-Year-Old Jersey Shore 'Boy' Gets Admitted Predator Three Years Behind Bars Planned Sex With 15-Year-Old Jersey Shore 'Boy' Gets Admitted Predator Three Years Behind Bars
Planned Sex With 15-Year-Old Jersey Shore 'Boy' Gets Admitted Predator Three Years Behind Bars A confessed predator who was busted when he showed up for what he thought would be sex with a 15-year-old boy at the Jersey Shore was sentenced to a plea-bargained three years in prison. Robert Lisicki, 51, of Metuchen didn’t realize the person he’d been communicating with on social media was actually an undercover detective, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Lisicki planned meeting the “boy” for sex, even discussing the things he’d planned do to, Bruck said. Detectives who were waiting arrested Lisicki when he arrived at the planned location in Toms River, the attorney general…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Man Accused Of Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old Girl In PA NJ Man Accused Of Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old Girl In PA
NJ Man Accused Of Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old Girl In PA A 21-year-old Jersey Shore man was arrested on accusations he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl for months in Chester County, PA. Police began investigating late last year after it was reported that Luis F. Adan, of Jackson, met up with the female in West WhitelandTownship and engaged in sexual contact, West Whiteland  Det. Scott Pezick said. The two met online and the acts occurred between October and December 2020, Pezick said. West Whiteland police obtained a warrant for Adan's arrest and took him into custody last Friday, the detective said. Adan is facing a dozen charges inc…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Prosecutor: Central Jersey Middle School Science Teacher Solicited Sex From Underage Boys Prosecutor: Central Jersey Middle School Science Teacher Solicited Sex From Underage Boys
Prosecutor: Central Jersey Middle School Science Teacher Solicited Sex From Underage Boys A 65-year-old science teacher at Long Branch Middle School was arrested on Tuesday in connection with soliciting sex online from boys, authorities said.  Jesse Rosenbaum of Manalapan was taken into custody during a motor vehicle stop near his home by detectives with the prosecutor’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit and Special Victims Unit, according to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri  Rosenbaum was charged with third-degree attempted endangering the welfare of a child, Onofri. said. He was being held in the Mercer County Correction&nbs…

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by Jon Craig