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ICE Seeks Hold On Guatemalan National From Lodi Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen
A Guatemalan national living in Lodi repeatedly sexually assaulted an underage teen, authorities charged. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately issued a detainer, for deportation purposes, after Juan Nimacachi, 39, was arrested and sent to the Bergen County Jail on Wednesday, May 17, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Special Victims Unit zeroed in on Nimacachi after being alerted by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency on Tuesday. Working with Lodi police, the investigators found that Nimacachi -- who works as a car…
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Charges
: Out-Of-State Woman Held Captive For Year By NJ Man Was Raped, Grand Jury Finds
UPDATE: A South Jersey man repeatedly raped a woman he'd kidnapped and held hostage during a nearly year-long cross-country trip, state authorities said an ongoing investigation has found. James W. Parrillo Jr., 57, was captured and has remained jailed ever since the woman escaped from a residence in Bass Township and fled to safety at a nearby gas station three months ago, ending a terrifying year in captivity. Parillo originally was charged with first-degree kidnapping, criminal restraint, aggravated assault and strangulation, as well as hindering apprehension, obstruction and refusing to…
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Girl, 16, Sexually Assaulted By Treatment Center Driver Hides In Rt 17 Dunkin Donuts: PD
A driver for a local teen treatment facility sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl before she locked herself in a Dunkin' Donuts bathroom on Route 17 and got help, authorities said. Police found the girl after a security guard called them to the donut shop on southbound Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights shortly before 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4. She told them that she'd been sexually assaulted on the facility's bus while passing through Wood-Ridge moments earlier, Wood-Ridge Police Chief Michael O’Donnell said. The driver -- identified as Clarence K. Hedgeman, 41, of Woodland Park -- apparently…
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NJ Marching Band Director Accused Of Sexual Relationship With Student: Prosecutor
A Riverside High School teacher’s aide and marching band director has been charged with having a sexual relationship with a male student, authorities said. Michelle Jacoby, 27, of Riverside, was charged with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment, according to Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw. She was taken into custody Tuesday May 2 and released Wednesday May 3 after an appearance in Superior Court, Bradshaw said. The investigation began Tuesday after the BCPO Special Victims Unit received information that the student had disclosed the relationship to a teach…
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Corrections Officer Charged With Sex Assault On Child Under 13: Prosecutor
A New Jersey corrections officer has been indicted on sexual assault charges involving a child under 13, authorities said. Jonathan Perez, 33, was charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, one count of sexual assault and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, according to Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland. He was indicted by a county grand jury on Tuesday, April 25. New Jersey State Police in Woodbine and the county prosecutor's office investigated a report that Perez, a corrections officer at Cape May Correctional Facility, had been sexua…
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Most-Wanted Fugitive Captured At Newark Airport Gets 8 Years, No Parole, For Child Porn: Feds
A wanted pedophile from Canada who was captured at Newark Airport after 17 years on the run was sentenced to a plea-bargained eight years in federal prison for trafficking child porn. Perth De – also known as Parthasarthie Kapoor -- had been one of Canada’s “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives when U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agents nabbed him on Jan. 21, 2020 as he tried to fly to his native India. An examination of several cellphones in his luggage “revealed numerous videos of children being sexually abused,” a complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark says. Some of the videos …
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: Local NJ Police Chiefs Charged In Sex Cases
Two New Jersey police chiefs – one retired, the other suspended – are separately charged as sexual predators within their departments. Suspended Manville Police Chief Thomas Herbst continued a pattern of “sexually predatory behavior targeting multiple women over many years,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in announcing the charges on Wednesday, April 12. One victim who worked for the department was sexually assaulted by Herbst both at headquarters and at her home, the attorney general said. Former Howell Township Police Chief Andrew Kudrick, meanwhile, “had an extramarit…
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More Patient Sex Abuse Charges For NJ Doctor
Patient sexual abuse charges continue to rack up for one New Jersey urgent care doctor. Yet another one of Gurvindra Johal's former patients has stepped forwarding, alleging the 55-year-old physician sexually assaulted them in Middlesex County, authorities said. On Tuesday, April 4, Johal, of the Colonia section of Woodbridge, was charged with an additional count of criminal sexual contact, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. The investigation now includes a woman who alleges that Johal touched her inappropriately while under his care at Amboy Urgent Care,…
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Mom Of NJ TikTok Cheer Coach Tampered With Son's Sex Assault Investigation: Police
A 25-year-old cheer coach accused of sexually assaulting the young athletes at his New Jersey gym apparently had help from mommy dearest amid the investigation, say police who recently arrested and charged the 51-year-old woman with infringing on the investigation. Angela Ryker, of Hammonton, faces charges of criminal attempt and witness tampering in the probe of her son and Rockstar Cheer coach, Jonathan Ryker, Medford Township police said. Ryker became the center of an investigation in August 2022, when authorities in Medford got a tip that he sent explicit content to a minor on social me…
Lifestyle
NJ's Brooke Shields Details Life As Sexualized Child Star In Hollywood
Brooke Shields, a Bergen County native, is baring all about her life growing up in front of the cameras. Shields is the subject of "Pretty Baby," a two-part documentary premiering on Hulu on Monday, April 3, that discusses her life growing up in the spotlight. The documentary is named after a 1978 movie where Shields played a child sex worker and did two nude scenes, even though she was only 12. The model/actress lived in Haworth and graduated from Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood. The documentary also features Shields' relationship with her late mother, who ba…
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South Jersey Man, 64, Arrested In Sexual Assaults Of 2 Boys: Prosecutor
A 64-year-old man from Camden County has been arrested in connection with the sexual assaults of two boys in Cape May County, authorities said. Charged in the assaults was William Smith Jr. of Pine Hill, according to Cape May Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland alongside Chief Anthony Garreffi Jr. of the Sea Isle City Police Department. In February 2023, an investigation was initiated by Sea Isle City police and the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit after two juvenile males reported being sexually assaulted by Smith Jr. in a residence in Sea Isle City…
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Gunpoint Rapist Robbed, Kidnapped One Of His Saddle Brook Victims: Prosecutor
Authorities on Friday seized a former Montclair High School football star who they said kidnapped and robbed one of multiple rape victims at gunpoint in Saddle Brook. There may be other victims, they said. Fokam Parfait, a 25-year-old repeat offender, fled the kidnapping rape on a motorcycle last Friday, March 24, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in announcing his arrest a week later. Investigators from his Special Victims Unit and Saddle Brook police found that Parfait had also sexually assaulted “multiple” victims while armed in the township. Parfait – who played safety and lin…
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