New Jersey Herald
Prosecutors have offered a former maintenance worker at a Morris Plains assisted-living home five years in prison to avoid trial on charges he sexually assaulted a 77-year-old resident last summer.
Anthony Ligon, 62, appeared in a virtual state Superior Court hearing Monday from the Morris County jail, where he has been held since his July 2020 arrest. Ligon, of Morristown, is accused of assaulting a 77-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease and early-onset dementia inside a unit at the Arbor Terrace senior living facility between July 3 and July 4.
Ligon pleaded not guilty Monday to an indictment formally charging him with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault, third-degree aggravated sexual contact and fourth-degree criminal sexual contact.