An individual from Woodbridge was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault on a child in Bergen County, according to the authorities.
Bergen County Mark Musella stated on Thursday that Richard George Simko, who is 20 years old, assaulted the victim, who is under the age of 16, on multiple occasions while he was in Bergenfield.
On Sunday, the Bergenfield Police Department made contact with the Special Victim’s Unit of the prosecutor’s office. On Wednesday, investigators visited Simko in Woodbridge and detained him.
According to the records filed with the court, he is being charged with five charges of sexual assault in the second degree and one offense of endangering the welfare of a child in the third degree.
For the time being, Simko was being held at the Bergen County Jail in anticipation of his initial court appearance. The court or jail documents that were available on Thursday did not contain any information about Simko’s attorney.