Fox 5 News Rreporter Charles Leaf Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting A 4yo

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Fox 5 Reporter Charged With Sexually Assaulting Girl, 4
WYCKOFF, N.J. (CBS 2/AP) – Fox 5 News reporter Charles Leaf has been arrested in New Jersey on sex assault charges.

Leaf, 40, a general assignment and investigative reporter, was arrested on three counts of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child at his home in Wyckoff, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.

He is being held on $250,000 bail. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said the victim, a 4-year-old girl, was an acquaintance of Leaf’s and was assaulted inside his home.

Leaf was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Leaf was also ordered to surrender his passport and have no contact with the victim.

The arrest stemmed from an investigation between the prosecutor’s office Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit and the Wyckoff Police Department.

Leaf’s arraignment is scheduled for November 4.
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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/10/...exual-assault/

Charles Leaf

[CplPunishment]

250k bond sounds like they got the skinny on him. I don't think this perv will be getting out any time soon. I hope he'll like his stay with the boys in the pen. I think he looks like a virgin just what they like.

[Trish]

This happens to be the news station I watch every day. There is like NO stories on this. I have been trying to find out more and it's been frustrating as hell. Didn't realize the guy lived so close.It just seems fishy that there isn't more out there on this story. Guess I will have to wait for his court date. I hope it isn't true but if it is I hope the guy gets thrown in general population and gets what he deserves.
I did see one other article that mentioned he may have penetrated this young girl and that he was jerking off in front of her on several occasions.They say this happened at his house but no idea why this little girl was at his house.
Proves again you never know what a pedo looks like and he could very well be your neighbor.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A sister of troubled Fox 5 reporter Charles Leaf says the Emmy-award winning newsman has molested young girls before.

Susan Gaudet told the Daily News her younger brother, busted Thursday on sex assault charges, abused two of his relatives in the 1980s.

"I'd like to see them put him away for the rest of his life," fumed Gaudet, one of Leaf's three sisters, from Jacksonville, N.C. "I am so full of rage. If I had the opportunity to spit in his face and hurt him, I would do it."
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It was 25 years ago when Gaudet found out Leaf abused two young female relatives multiple times at their grandparents' home in Trucksville, Pa.

The abuse started when Leaf was just 9years old and his first victim was 3, Gaudet said.

Over the next six years, Leaf repeatedly molested the girl and her sister, who is two years younger, said Gaudet, 53.

Leaf was eventually confronted, and he immediately confessed to the sordid acts, Gaudet said.

"He said, 'Mom, I did it,'" Gaudet recalled. "Just like that. And he's never denied it. He probably wanted help, but he never got it."

Leaf was never prosecuted, Gaudet said. The incident divided the family, but Leaf's sister started talking to him again in recent years.

She remained concerned that he might molest another young girl.

"He continually reassured me we had nothing to worry about," said Gaudet, a mother of two. "I kind of resolved myself to the fact that this was something in the past, but now we know it wasn't."

Gaudet said she revealed her brother's dark past to his wife, Monika, for the first time on Friday. The couple has a 7-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.

"She said, 'I don't know what to believe. I don't know what to do,'" Gaudet recounted.

In recent years, Leaf, an ex-Marine who has won two Emmy Awards, battled depression and often threatened suicide, his sister said.

"He's tormented," Gaudet said. "Little did we know how tormented he really was."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...ys_sister.html

[CplPunishment]

Demented bastid reminds me of dear old dad.

[LestYeBeJudged]

So he molested a 4-year old and HAS a 4-year old... Maybe saying this child was an "acquaintance" is just a method to keep the identity of the real victim a secret for now.

I'd like to think someone couldn't do this to their own child, but I know we all read this site too much to know the truth...

[Dakota Valkyrie]

An award-winning Fox 5 reporter accused of child sexual assault was charged Tuesday with an additional count of possession of child pornography.

Charles Leaf’s computer was seized from his home when he was arrested last month on charges that he sexually abused a 4-year-old girl, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kenneth Ralph said at a court hearing in Hackensack.

A forensic analysis of the computer revealed that Leaf had child-pornography images, Ralph said.

Leaf, 40, was also denied a reduction of his bail, which now stands at $270,000 after the new charge was filed
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Judge Liliana S. DeAvila-Silebi refused to cut the bail, saying she was concerned that Leaf has three drivers’ licenses in three different states.

She also said Leaf’s plan to live in a local hotel was unacceptable and that he needs to come up with a firm address.

Venturi said he will arrange within a few days for his client to live with friends.

DeAvila-Silebi, however, said that while many people wrote letters in support of Leaf, none was willing to put up their homes to help him post bail.

“And the fact that he could not find a friend to live with… I have to take all these factors into account,” she said.

Unless Leaf manages to post the $270,000 bail, he will remain at the Bergen County Jail until another bail hearing is held.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crim...ew_charge.html