Hoboken Man Charged With Sexual Assault Of Boy, 5

HOBOKEN, NJ — The Hudson County Prosecutor's office has arrested a 30-year-old Hoboken man on charges that he abused a five-year-old boy in his care.

Ivan Sanchez, 30, of Hoboken, works as a janitor at the Hoboken Housing Authority. He was arrested at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday at the agency’s Harrison Street office.

On Monday of this week, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit were notified by the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency about a possible child abuse case of a five-year-old boy in Hoboken.

Police say that Sanchez physically abused the 5-year-old boy in multiple locations across his body causing severe bruising and injury including on his face, ear, buttocks, lower back, upper back and genitals.

Sanchez has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a crime of the second degree, and sexual assault by contact, also a second-degree crime.