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'Deranged' Man Attacks Nanny, Curses At Kids In Hoboken Park On Halloween: Police, Campaign 'Deranged' Man Attacks Nanny, Curses At Kids In Hoboken Park On Halloween: Police, Campaign
'Deranged' Man Attacks Nanny, Curses At Kids In Hoboken Park On Halloween: Police, Campaign A 31-year-old man was arrested after police say he was cursing at children and then attacked a nanny in a Hoboken park on Thursday, Oct. 31, Halloween, according to police and the nanny's family. Officers were called to Church Square Park around 12:30 p.m. where a man later identified Troy Timberlake had been cursing at children and elderly people, Hoboken City spokeswoman Marci Rubin. Timberlake then began hitting people, including a woman identified by a local family on a GoFundMe campaign as "B." "A deranged man assaulted her in broad daylight in front of many people and kids," the…

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by Cecilia Levine
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NJ Couple Who Starved Children, Inflicted Years Of 'Extreme Punishments' Sentenced To Probation NJ Couple Who Starved Children, Inflicted Years Of 'Extreme Punishments' Sentenced To Probation
NJ Couple Who Starved Children, Inflicted Years Of 'Extreme Punishments' Sentenced To Probation A Morris County couple was sentenced to probation after they admitted to years of locking their home refrigerator and forcing their children to stand in a corner for up to eight hours at a time as a form of punishment. John Flanagan, 35 and his wife, Joanna, both of Netcong, were sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation for child cruelty and neglect by Judge Stephen Taylor, Daily Record reports. The two pleaded guilty in June to keeping food from John’s children, ages 11 and 13, as well as forcing them to stand in a corner for up to eight hours as punishment for “childlike behavior,”…

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by Valerie Musson
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Prosecutor: Asbury Brothers Abduct Four Girls, Sexually Assault Three Prosecutor: Asbury Brothers Abduct Four Girls, Sexually Assault Three
Prosecutor: Asbury Brothers Abduct Four Girls, Sexually Assault Three Two brothers from Asbury Park picked four underage girls off the street, plied them with pot, Ecstasy and booze and then sexually assaulted three of them, authorities charged. Wilson Cesaire, 21, and Wilfrid Cesaire, 28, approached the Millstone Township juveniles as they were walking and offered them a ride, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said. They brought the minors to a QuickChek in Manalapan and, eventually, to the home they share on Asbury Avenue, Gramiccioni said. After giving them all drugs and alcohol, the brothers sexually assaulted three of them, the prose…

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by Jerry DeMarco