North Brunswick School Aide Charged With Sexually Assaulting Girls

Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Kenneth P. McCormick, director of the North Brunswick Police Department, announced Tuesday that a North Brunswick High School teacher’s aide has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl on separate occasions.

Derrick Weeks, 34, of North Oaks Boulevard, North Brunswick, was arrested and charged on May 11, with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual contact of the 15-year-old girl, with committing an aggravated sexual assault and a sexual assault upon the 6-year-old girl, with endangering the welfare of the 15 year old and with endangering the welfare of the 6 year old, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Weeks, who is employed as a special education aide at North Brunswick Township High School, was charged following an investigation by Investigator Jeffrey Maroccia and Investigator Andreea Capraru, both of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, and Detective Seeta Jones of the North Brunswick Police Department.

The victims were not known to Weeks through the North Brunswick schools and the charges do not stem from his duties at the high school. He was suspended from his job following his arrest.

During the investigation, it was determined that Weeks sexually assaulted the 15-year-old girl on numerous occasions between January 2011, and the summer of 2011, and sexually assaulted the 6-year-old girl on April 28.

The investigation began after the mother of one of the victims contacted police. Weeks is being held at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick on $300,000 bail set by Superior Court Judge Vincent LeBlon.

Anyone with information on these or similar incidents is asked to call Investigator Maroccia or Investigator Capraru of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-3600, or Detective Jones of the North Brunswick Police Department at 732-545-3200.

As is the case with all criminal defendants, the charges against Weeks are merely accusations and he is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

—Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.