Aggravated Sex Assault Of Child Charge Filed Against Bound Brook Man

BOUND BROOK, NJ — A Bound Brook man was arrested after police say he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald announced.

Lenic S. Galvin, 20, of Linden Avenue, Bound Brook, was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault by contact and third-degree endangering the welfare of a minor.

On July 26, a 12-year-old child alleged that she was sexually assaulted in Bound Brook by an unknown man, later identified as Galvin, who she met on social media, said McDonald.

She said that she met Galvin on social media and he arranged for transportation for the 12-year-old girl to his home in Bound Brook where he sexually assaulted her, according to an interview she gave to a Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit detective.

On Wednesday, July 27, Galvin was arrested without incident in Bound Brook and he was taken to the Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing.

Anyone with information relating to the sexual assault is asked to contact the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit at 908-231-7100 or the Bound Brook Police
Department at 732-356-0800 or via the STOPit app.

Information can also be provided through the Somerset County Crime Stoppers’ Tip Line at 1-888-577-TIPS (8477). All anonymous STOPit reports and Crime Stopper tips will be kept confidential.

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