NEW JERSEY
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By Michaelangelo Conte | The Jersey Journal
A North Hudson preacher and self-proclaimed exorcist who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy rejected a plea deal yesterday on another sex crime charge.
But first Gregorio Martinez, who was on the lam for 18 months after his February 2015 conviction, had some grievances to air with Hudson County Superior Court Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez.
“I’m not guilty of anything,” Martinez, 49, the former North Bergen pastor, told the judge.
Martinez also complained at the hearing that when he is brought to court for a hearing, prisoners in other holding cells spit at him while he waits in his cell.
“When they are leaving they spit at my face and they spit at my chest,” Martinez said through a Spanish translator. Galis-Menendez called the spitting inappropriate and said she would alert the sheriff’s officers who handle the prisoners.
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