Teens Accused of Sex Assault Will be Tried as Adults

Pair along with another individual are accused of raping an intoxicated girl in 2011.

Two Morristown teens accused of sexually assaulting a girl in 2011 will be tried as adults, according to the Star-Ledger. The defendants, Aquil Malik and Dequan McDaniel, were 17 at the time of the alleged incident in September 2011. Now 19, they could face up to 20 years in prison. Were they tried as juveniles, the maximum allowable sentence would have been four years. The previously-unidentified pair were 17 when they and 19-year-old Tyrec Philips, also of Morristown, are accused of having allegedly given a 17-year-old female, also of Morristown, something to drink that made her fall in and out of consciousness. The trio then allegedly drove from a Hazel Street house to a secluded part of Monroe Street, where they allegedly had sex with …

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Morristown Man Charged With Attempted Sexual Assault

Police called after alleged incident took place while he was watching TV at woman's apartment.

Denim Day Thurs.: Take a Stand Against Rape

Morris County Sexual Assault Center to hold annual event from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday on the Morristown Green.

A decade ago, Italian judges didn't convict a rapist because the victim wore jeans and, they reasoned, the alleged attack could not be a rape—she must have helped the man remove them. Ever since then, rape crisis centers around the world have pointed to that decision as an example of absurd and dangerous thinking, and they've marked  “Denim Day”—when they challenge their communities to wear jeans, and they sponsor a host of prevention activities. Thursday, the Morris County Sexual Assault Center (MCSAC), together with the members of the Morris Alliance to Prevent Sexual Assault will celebrate New Jersey’s Third Annual Denim Day with a 2-hour demonstration on the Morristown Green from noon to 2 p.m. The event will be complete with live …

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Police: Twp. Man Taped Woman in Shower

Also accused of sexually assaulting her when she was just 16

A Morris Township man set up a camera to secretly record a 23-year-old woman in her bathroom — and years ago, sexually assaulted the same woman when she was only a teenager, police said. Allan Goldstein, 62, of Sussex Avenue has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, invasaion of privacy and attempted invasion of privacy. On Sunday, the woman reported finding a small camera secreted behind a hole in a shower tile in her bathroom, according to an affidavit signed by Detective Robert Shearer of the Morris Township Police Department. She also told police that Goldstein had sexually assaulted her in November of 2003, when she was under the influece of prescription medicine, recovering from a surgery, according to the affidavit. She said …

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