Former Woodbridge Cop Gets Up To 1 Year In Jail For Molesting Cousin

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The former Woodbridge Police officer who admitted to molesting his younger cousin — which started when they were both children — was sentenced this week to a minimum of six months to no more than one year in prison.

Ryan Alcott, 32, was sentenced Thursday, April 16 in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, according to Pennsylvania court records.

Alcott is accused of molesting his younger female cousin starting when she was eight years old and he was 11, according to New Brunswick Today, which was the first to report this story. He told prosecutors he had been left alone to babysit her the first time it happened.

The molestation took place in Woodbridge and at the family's lake house in Lakeville, PA, which is near Lake Wallenpaupack (Wayne County, Pennsylvania).

The woman, now an adult, first reported what happened to Woodbridge Police in September 2024, after Alcott had been hired as a police officer. Woodbridge Police contacted the Middlesex County Prosecutor, which opened a criminal investigation.

After he was accused, the Woodbridge Police Dept. suspended him without pay, according to these online Woodbridge Police records, and Alcott later quit.

In New Jersey, Alcott pled guilty to child endangerment and was sentenced to five years of probation, according to the Middlesex County prosecutor. He was also ordered to forfeit all future employment as a law enforcement officer.

In Pennsylvania, he pled guilty to a more serious crime of aggravated indecent assault of a child.

He is from the Sewaren section of Woodbridge.

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