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A grand jury indicted Franco-Leon in November on 28 counts, accusing him of aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault against both girls.
Franco-Leon groomed and preyed upon his victims for years, stalking them online and engaging in sexual activity beginning in 2015, prosecutors said. He allegedly admitted to one of the relationships when he was arrested in March 2018.
Prosecutors say the acts occurred on various occasions between 2015 and 2019. Franco-Leon allegedly told police he resigned from Morris Catholic in 2018 after he developed an emotional connection with one of the girls.
One of the victims told police the former teacher sent her sexually explicit messages and a nude photo of himself on Snapchat, bought her a vibrator and took her to a Rockaway hotel for sex, according to police. The other victim alleges Franco-Leon performed oral sex and other sex acts on her in a classroom.
No prison time for school bus driver who molested students during ‘hide-and-seek’ games on bus
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Thomas Thomasevich, 70, of Oakland, is accused of sexually assaulting two students while working as a bus driver in Kinnelon.
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A Kinnelon bus driver who molested two young children during games of hide-and-seek aboard his school bus was given lifetime parole supervision instead of prison during a virtual hearing on Thursday.
Thomas Thomasevich, 70, of Oakland, pleaded guilty over the summer to two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and four counts of child abuse and neglect stemming from the months-long abuse. He admitted to touching two young students inappropriately over their clothes, and allowing four students to ride the bus without their seatbelts between October 2019 and January 2020.