Probation officer who admitted extorting sex from woman on probation gets jail sentence
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
Henry Cirignano, of Wall Township, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman when he was her probation officer.Ocean County Jail
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A probation officer who previously admitted sexually assaulting a woman he supervised while she was in drug court and threatening to send her to jail if she resisted was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in state prison, officials said.
Henry C. Cirignano, 48, of Wall Township, an 18-year veteran of the New Jersey State Probation Department in the Vicinage of Monmouth, pleaded guilty on February 24, 2020 to three counts of second degree sexual assault by coercion, and one count of second degree official misconduct, according to a statement from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.
A former Monmouth County probation officer is heading to prison for the next decade after being sentenced Thursday for sexually assaulting a woman he was supposed to be supervising on Drug Court probation and for making false representations to the Court, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni.
Henry Cirignano, 48, of Wall Township, who was an 18-year veteran of the New Jersey State Probation Department in Monmouth, was sentenced by Ocean County Presiding Criminal Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels in Toms River.
As part of this sentence, Cirignano has to serve 6 years, 9 months and 20 days before becoming eligible for any release on parole.