Morris County man sentenced to 5 years in prison for child sexual abuse

⚖️ A 72-year-old Morris County man was sentenced to five years for sexually abusing a boy.
👦 Prosecutors said the victim was 10 when he reported the abuse to detectives.
🔒 The man must register as a sex offender and face parole supervision for life.

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP (Morris) — A 72-year-old Morris County man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy has been sentenced to five years in state prison.

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Gregory Rademacher was sentenced in Superior Court on Aug. 28, 2026, according to Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll. State Department of Corrections records reveal he will be eligible for release on Nov. 2, 2029.

After his release, Rademacher must register as a sex offender and be subject to parole supervision for life, Carroll said.

Boy reported abuse to detectives

Authorities said that Rademacher admitted to the sexual abuse of the 10-year-old boy.  The victim went to detectives in July 2025 and said he'd been abused at the 72-year-old man's Washington Township home.

Rademacher was arrested on Aug. 4, 2025, when detectives searched his home and found child sexual abuse material on several electronic devices.

He later pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault and third-degree child endangerment.

72-year-old being held at facility that was once a youth prison

Rademacher is now being held at the Garden State Correctional Facility, according to state prison records. The facility was previously known as the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, and was once limited to housing inmates between 18 and 30 years old.

Now the facility has a new role: handling the intake of new inmates.

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"The New Jersey Department of Corrections strategically manages bed space across its correctional system, making operational adjustments as necessary to maintain safe and orderly operations. As part of these operational adjustments, NJDOC closed the Central Reception & Assignment Facility in 2021 and relocated statewide male intake operations to the Garden State Correctional Facility (GSCF)," DOC spokesperson Chris Greeder said.

Currently, Greeder said 323 individuals over the age of 30, including Rademacher, are housed at the GSCF. The facility now handles initial medical, mental health, social services, and classification assessments for males entering custody. After intake is done, the state assigns them to permanent facilities based on several factors.

"Gregory Rademacher currently remains in an intake unit at GSCF and will transfer to an assigned facility after he completes the intake and classification process," Greeder said.

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