NEW JERSEY
The Record
BY PETER J. SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER | THE RECORD
The pastor of a Little Ferry church made a brief court appearance in Hackensack on Tuesday to answer charges that he pointed an unloaded rifle at an eight-year-old boy last month.
The Rev. Kevin Carter appeared before Judge Louis Dinice in Central Municipal Court who entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to charges of endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated assault for allegedly pointing a replica of a Civil War-era rifle at the boy in the rectory of St. Margaret of Cortona Church on Sept. 13.
A contingent of about 50 supporters, many of them law enforcement officers from the Port Authority and the Jersey City police departments, packed the courtroom and later huddled around the priest as he made a statement to reporters expressing concern for the boy and his family.
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