ONLY ON CVP: An 83-year-old widower from Saddle Brook molested an 11-year-old girl a short time before his wife of 55 years died, according to an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack.
Nicolangelo Pallotta touched the girl between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31 last year, the indictment alleges.
His wife died on Dec. 19. She was 73.
Pallotta has been free on $100,000 bail that he posted after his Jan. 29 arrest.
The girl “disclosed the information to her mother, who advised the victim’s school what had occurred,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said a day after the arrest. “After speaking with school personnel, she took the victim to her pediatrician where she disclosed the same information.
“The Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P) was also notified and responded to the victim’s residence with the Saddle Brook Police Department,” Molinelli said.
State caseworkers contacted his detectives, the prosecutor said, “after which arrangements were made for the victim to be brought to [this] office to be forensically interviewed by a detective.”
“The victim reaffirmed the allegation,” Molinelli said.
The indictment charges Pallotta with first-degree aggravated sexual assault with penetration, sexual contact by “intentionally touching the victim’s genitals” and impairing the morals of a child.
