NEW JERSEY
Patch
By MICHELLE SAHN (Patch Staff)
A Catholic school basketball coach from Woodbridge has been has been charged with repeatedly performing a sex act in the presence of a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.
Darren Ventre, 40, of the Fords section of Woodbridge, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child.
He volunteered as athletic director and as coach of the girls’ basketball team at St. Matthew the Apostle R.C. Church in Edison, according to a news release from Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Woodbridge Police Robert Hubner.
Ventre brought the girl to his home and performed the sex act on a number of occasions over an extended period, the news release said.
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