NJ school custodian arrested on child sexual assault charges

⚠ A NJ school custodian has been charged with sexual assault

⚠ Authorities say the assaults happened at home

⚠ The man was arrested at his house in Ringwood

RINGWOOD — A custodian at a North Jersey high school has been arrested and charged in connection with a child sexual assault.

On March 7, Ringwood police contacted the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office about a child between the ages of 13 and 15 being sexually assaulted at a home in West Milford in January and February.

Prosecutors charged Scott Volpe, 39, of Ringwood.

According to Patch, a man by the same name was recently employed as a custodian by the Lakeland Regional School District in Wanaque.

“In a letter sent to families on Thursday, Superintendent Hugh Beattie confirmed that a district employee had been arrested in connection with a crime that occurred over the past few months involving a minor child in another town,” Patch reported.

Lakeland High School was swept for hidden cameras after Volpe’s arrest, prompting a shelter-in-place on Friday, News 12 reported. The school said no cameras were found.

Five days later on March 12, members of the prosecutor’s office arrested Volpe around 9:30 a.m.

He was slapped with a slew of charges including first-degree aggravated sexual assault, two counts of second-degree sexual assault, third-degree aggravated criminal sexual contact, fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, third-degree hindering apprehension, tampering with physical evidence, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, manufacturing child pornography, second-degree endangering the welfare of child-sexual conduct, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child-possession of child pornography.

Volpe could spend decades in prison if convicted.

Volpe is detained in the Passaic County jail before his next court appearance.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call the prosecutor's office tip line at 1-877-370-PCPO.

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