Crime & Safety
New Brunswick Pastor Slept With Girl, 17, Prosecutor Says
Breaking: A man who lives in South Brunswick, but works as a pastor in New Brunswick was arrested. Manuel Mora, 52, lives in Kendall Park.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A man who lives in South Brunswick, but works as a pastor in New Brunswick was arrested by New Brunswick police Friday and charged with having improper sexual contact with a 17-year-old girl.
Pastor Manuel Mora, 52, of the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick was arrested Dec. 1, and charged with endangering the welfare of a child in the third degree and criminal sexual contact in the fourth degree.
He is a pastor at All Nations Church in New Brunswick, where police say he had ongoing sexual contact with a 17-year-old girl from New Brunswick. Mora is currently being held at the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in North Brunswick.
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The charges were filed during an investigation conducted by Detective William Coleman of the New Brunswick Police Department and Detective Mark Morris of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigation is active and is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Coleman of the New Brunswick Police Department at (732) 745-5200, or Detective Morris of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-4194.
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