NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Sue Epstein | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on June 05, 2015
WOODBRIDGE — The coach of the girls’ basketball team at St. Matthew the Apostle Church in Edison was charged Friday with repeatedly performing a sex act in the presence of a 14-year-old girl, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey announced.
Carey said Darren Ventre, 40, of the Fords section of Woodbridge, was arrested and charged with aggravated criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child.
The prosecutor said Ventre volunteered as athletic director as well as the girls’ basketball coach at the Catholic school.
He said Ventre was arrested and charged during an investigation by county Detective Grace Brown and Woodbridge Township police Detective Tina Small.
The investigation revealed Ventre brought the girl to his house and performed the sex act on a number of occasions over an extended period of time, Carey said.
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