Monday, April 29, 2013
Decision means shorter sentence for Lake Hiawatha pizzeria cook convicted of assaulting a woman in 2007.
The New Jersey Supreme Court agreed with an appellate court decision overturning a Parsippany man’s conviction on two counts in the 2007 sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman, reported NJ.com. The state's highest court ruled that 26-year-old Eric Clemente Rangel, an undocumented worker from Mexico, was charged incorrectly because the wrong section of New Jersey's aggravated sexual assault law was applied to the case. As a result, Rangel's 27-year prison sentence will be reduced. Rangel, who worked for a Lake Hiawatha pizzeria, was convicted on five charges including first-degree aggravated sexual assault and second-degree attempted aggravated sexual assault after his 2009 trial. Both of those charges were thrown out Monday. In the 2007 …
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Ablaze Baseball and Softball Academy owner accused of having sexual relationship with minor.
A Union County middle school teacher and owner of a Parsippany youth sports academy was arrested last week for allegedly having sexual contact with an underage teenage girl, authorities said. Robert J. Gervasi Jr., 48, of Bloomfield, was taken into custody in Union Township on Thursday while attempting to meet with a 14-year-old girl, Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said. Gervasi was charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, two counts of second-degree sexual assault, one count of second-degree luring, one count of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, one count of third-degree aggravated criminal sexual contact and one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact. Gervasi was a teacher at Kawameeh …
Monday, April 9, 2012
Part one of Patch's series on National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Every two minutes. That’s how often someone is sexually assaulted in America. When you really consider the magnitude of that statistic, it’s almost overwhelming. Every two minutes, perhaps the most personal of all crimes is committed against someone in this country. Every two minutes of the day, someone’s life is irrevocably changed. That’s 207,754 people sexually assaulted a year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. And every one of those people has a personal story. The teenager terrorized almost nightly by her stepfather. The man who suppressed years of abuse for so long that he nearly exploded from the accumulating emotions. The woman who still hides her sexual abuse from her mother. There is positive news in time for National…
Anonymous Woman
12:23 pm on Thursday, May 9, 2013
So basically his most serious convictions were overturned, right? Which means when he is re sentenced he will not get anywhere near 27 years and will most likely be released now or soon. I worked with this upstanding illegal from about 2004-2006 at Chili's in Parsippany. He attempted to assault me, but I was lucky enough to escape the closet he locked me into with him before he could do much. … more ›