A 53-year-old middle school teacher from Piscataway has been arrested for sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.Harry Wyatt, a teacher at Leonard V. Moore Middle School.
N.J. middle school teacher charged with sexual assault of minor, police say
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
A 53-year-old teacher at a middle school in Union County was arrested last week and charged with sexually assaulting a minor who “was known to him,” according to a joint statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Piscataway Police Department.
Harry Wyatt, of Piscataway, was arrested on Christmas Eve and charged with sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities announced Monday. No other details about Wyatt’s arrest were released.
Wyatt is a teacher at the Leonard V. Moore Middle School, which is part of the Roselle School District, the office said. Officials at the school could not immediately be reached for comment Monday evening.
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A 53-year-old middle school teacher from Piscataway has been arrested for sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.
Harry Wyatt, a teacher at Leonard V. Moore Middle School in the the Roselle School District in Union County, was arrested on Christmas Eve, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Piscataway Police Chief Thomas Mosier.
Wyatt reportedly knew the child that he is accused of sexually assaulting, they said.
Wyatt was being held in the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center pending a detention hearing in Superior Court on Tuesday, they said.
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Updated Dec 29, 2020;
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to remove the name of a facial recognition software firm. It is unknown which facial recognition program was used to identify Nijeer Parks. It has also been updated to include a statement from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
When Nijeer Parks walked out of a New Jersey prison in 2016, he returned to his family in Paterson and told them he was done messing up his life.
Twice convicted for selling drugs, Parks spent six years behind bars and said he decided after his release to earn an honest living. He found a job as a clerk at the local PriceRite, began saving money and made plans to marry his fiancé.
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Published December 23, 2020 •
Updated on December 24, 2020 at 8:14 am
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A man has been charged with murder in the death of his 89-year-old grandmother, whose body was found in her central New Jersey home this summer.
Shawn Gonzalez, 39, of Carteret, remains jailed pending a detention hearing, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Wednesday if he’s retained an attorney.