Janitor accused of sexually assaulting student at private school
by Robert Stern/The TimesThursday January 24, 2008, 8:20 PM

PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- A 14-year-old student at The Hun School of Princeton was sexually assaulted inside a classroom at the elite private school by a janitor who is in the country illegally, township police announed Thursday.

The suspect, Erickson Isai Pretzintzin-Suchi, 24, of Trenton, was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child when he showed up for work at the school at 4 p.m. that day, according to police.

The sexual assault allegedly happened last Friday, Jan. 18, around 5:45 p.m., police said.

But law-enforcement authorities did not learn of the incident until Tuesday, when Hun School officials notified township police they had just received information about a student having been sexually assaulted by a janitor four days earlier.


The assailant, who worked under the alias Geovani Villagran, wasn't employed directly by the school but rather by one of its subcontractors, Detective Sgt. Ernie Silagyi said.

Silagyi said Pretzintzin-Suchi, who is being held at the Mercer County Correction Center on $250,000 cash bail, is of Hispanic background but that he did not know his nationality.

After taking him into custody, police suspected that Pretzintzin-Suchi could be in the country illegally and alerted the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about his arrest, Silagyi said.

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