NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Noah Cohen | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on October 06, 2015
HACKENSACK — A judge on Tuesday entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of the Little Ferry priest accused of pointing a replica Civil War-style gun at an 8-year-old boy, according to a published report.
The Rev. Kevin Carter, 55, who is assigned to St. Margaret of Cortona Church, appeared briefly in Bergen County Central Municipal Court, The Record reported.
Defense attorney Harold Cassidy previously said the incident was a joke and a parishioner who reported the encounter to officials misunderstood what happened, CBSNewYork.com reported.
Carter faces charges of child endangerment and aggravated assault by pointing a firearm, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday.
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