Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal announced the arrests of 51-year-old ALFREDO ROSALES of 259 Howland Avenue, Second Floor, Englewood, New Jersey, and 44-year-old ESPERANZA MANI-CORTEZ of 62007 South 7th Street, Apartment 1, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (DOB:: 07/19/1971) on July 2, 2016 on charges of Aggravated Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault, Aggravated Criminal Sexual Contact and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. The arrests were the result of a joint investigation by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit under the direction of Officer-in-Charge Deputy Chief Robert ANZILOTTI and the Englewood Police Department under the direction of Chief Lawrence SUFFERN.
On the evening of Friday, July 1, 2016, the Englewood Police Department received information that ALFREDO ROSALES may be engaged in sexual activity with a fourteen-year-old girl, who was in his company at the time. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and the Englewood Police Department subsequently initiated an investigation and discovered that ROSALES was engaging in sexual activity with two juvenile females – the fourteen-year-old girl, who was in his company at the time, and a 12-year-old girl, who was not with him at the time – and had been since 2010. The investigation further revealed that ESPERANZA MANI-CORTEZ made the two juvenile females available to ROSALES so that he could sexually assault them, and received financial compensation from ROSALES in exchange.
As a result of the investigation, on Saturday, July 2, 2016, ALFREDO ROSALES and ESPERANZA MANI-CORTEZ were arrested and were each charged with three counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault, two counts of Sexual Assault by Sexual Contact, one count of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Contact and two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
The Honorable GREGG PADOVANO, J.S.C. of Bergen County Superior Court set ALFREDO ROSALES’s bail at $500,000.00 with no 10 percent option. He is to have no contact with the victims and must surrender his passport as conditions of bail. Judge PADOVANO set ESPERANZA MANI-CORTEZ’S bail at $300,000.00 with no 10 percent option and also ordered her to have no contact with the victims and to surrender her passport as conditions of bail. ROSALES and MANI-CORTEZ were both remanded to the Bergen County Jail in lieu of bail.
They are scheduled to make their first appearances on July 5, 2016 at 1:30 PM in Central Judicial Processing Court.
Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Grewal states that the charges are merely accusations and that the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
CHARGE INFORMATION FORM
DEFENDANT: ESPERANZA MANI-CORTEZ DOB:: 07/19/1971
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: 2007 SOUTH 7th AVENUE, APT. 1, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
MARITAL STATUS: DIVORCED
OCCUPATION: UNEMPLOYED
ARREST INFORMATION
DATE OF ARREST: 07/02/2016
PLACE OF ARREST/TOWN: ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY
AGENCIES EFFECTING ARREST: BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE, SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
ENGLEWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHARGE AND STATUTE CITATIONS
TWO (2) COUNTS N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2A(1), AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT
1st DEGREE
ONE (1) COUNT N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2A(2), AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT
1st DEGREE
TWO (2) COUNTS N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2B, SEXUAL ASSAULT BY SEXUAL CONTACT
2nd DEGREE
ONE (1) COUNT N.J.S.A. 2C:14-3A, AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONTACT
3rd DEGREE
TWO (2) COUNTS N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4A, ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A CHILD
2nd DEGREE
ARRAIGNMENT INFORMATION
ARRAIGNMENT DATE/TIME: JULY 5, 2016 @ 1:30 PM
JUDGE: TO BE DETERMINED
BAIL AMOUNT & CONDITIONS: $300,000.00/NO 10 %, NO CONTACT WITH THE VICTIMS, MUST SURRENDER PASSPORT
PRESENT STATUS: BERGEN COUNTY JAIL
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