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A Clifton resident was raped between the ages of 6 and 11 by a now-21-year-old Paterson man who was a juvenile at the time, authorities said.
The victim, now 14, reported the alleged incidents to local police, who contacted the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit on March 7, Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Tom Rinaldi said late Monday.
An investigation followed that included interviews with, among others, the youngster, who reported “multiple sexual assaults by the suspect in residences in both Clifton and Paterson,” they said.
It wasn’t explained why it took nearly a year to arrest and charge the defendant, whose name wasn’t released because he was being prosecuted as a juvenile under New Jersey law based on when the alleged assaults occurred.
N.J. police officer charged with domestic violence-related crimes, authorities say
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A Paterson Police officer was arrested Thursday and charged with crimes related to alleged acts of domestic violence that happened in the city.
Joseph Tuminelli was charged with third degree aggravated assault, fourth degree stalking and harassment, a petty disorderly persons offense, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office and Paterson Police Department announced late Friday night.
No other information about Tuminelli’s alleged crimes were released by the office and his victim was also not identified.
A police spokesperson confirmed Saturday that Tuminelli has been suspended without pay.
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PATERSON In a department already struggling with multiple police misconduct controversies and hoping to improve its hiring process, a rookie cop has been suspended without pay after being arrested Thursday on domestic violence charges, officials said.
The accused officer, Joseph Tuminelli, was charged with third-degree aggravated assault, stalking and harassment, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office.
Mayor Andre Sayegh on Saturday confirmed Tuminelli’s unpaid suspension from his $33,873 city job.
Paterson Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said the city would wait for the prosecutor’s office to complete its investigation of the domestic violence case before taking any further action on Tuminelli’s employment.
New Jersey attorney general is investigating claims that police officers repeatedly punched an Arab teen without provocation
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is investigating after video footage shows multiple police officers assaulting a Muslim Arab American teenager.
Osamah Alsaidi, 19 at the time, was assaulted and arrested by police officers with the Paterson Police Department in New Jersey in December, his lawyer Diego Navas said in a pre-lawsuit notice of claim.
Alsaidi was walking down Madison Avenue in Paterson just after midnight December 14 when a vehicle approached him, according to video footage released by the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).