UPDATE:: Lawyer: Priest accused of groping teen in Boonton rejected plea offerAuthorities say a newly ordained Roman Catholic priest in New Jersey has been charged with groping a teen girl under her skirt after surveillance video captured him allegedly following a group of girls and grabbing one of them.
A recently-ordained Catholic priest who is accused of fondling a 13-year-old girl's buttocks under her skirt in Boonton rejected a plea offer of Pretrial Intervention, a special supervision program under which criminal charges are dismissed if all conditions are successfully met, the defense lawyer said Tuesday.
The Rev. Marcin A. Nurek - who was barred by the Diocese of Paterson from acting as a priest after he was arrested on Aug. 3 - appeared Tuesday with defense lawyer William Ware for a brief, pre-indictment conference before Superior Court Judge Stephen Taylor in Morristown.Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Meg Rodriguez said the charges against Nurek - criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child - have been marked for presentation to a Morris County grand jury for possible indictment, the precursor to a criminal trial.
Surveillance
video obtained by News 4 shows a group of four girls walking down Main
Street in Boonton, and then a man with a backpack comes from behind. He
grabs the buttocks of one of the girls, then takes off down the street.
The 37-year-old man allegedly told the teenage girl she was "sexy," according to the Morris County prosecutor's office.
The
girl told reported the incident to police, and the man with the
backpack -- who turned out to be the Rev. Marcin Nurek -- was arrested
on Essex Avenue about 20 minutes later, police say.
Man Captured on Video Groping Teen Girl on New Jersey Street Is Newly Ordained Priest: Police - NBC New York
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