UpdatedSat, Apr 24, 2021 at 11:13 am ET
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Ryan J. Zamorsky and Sean DiGiovanna (Somerset County Prosecutor s Office photos)
NEW JERSEY At least 13 teachers have temporarily or permanently lost their licenses over the past four months for bad behavior. The removals come as lawmakers, school officials and the Murphy administration have made repeated calls to tighten up the state s system of hiring teachers.
(see the list of teachers and their school districts below).
The teachers were removed for a variety of reasons including drug and sexual assault convictions. Hillsborough man who sexually assaulted a sleeping woman and a librarian who called a 14-year-old student her hot boyfriend, according to state records.
Prosecutor says CA man came to NJ to have sex with 14-year-old
FRANKLIN (Somerset) A 22-year-old California man has been arrested after prosecutors say he traveled across the country to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Justin R. Ganutan, of Stockton, California, was having an online relationship with the girl, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson, when he arrived in December and had sex with the underage teen twice.
The girl was interviewed by a detective from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit, and Ganutan was charged with second-degree sexual assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a minor.