Child sex charges pile up against NJ dad who escaped prosecution in Ga.

✅ Raymond Remus was initially charged with sexual assaults of two minors

✅ Two more juveniles have come forward

✅ Similar charges dismissed in 2022 in Georgia

SPOTSWOOD — A man charged with sexually assaulting two minors faces additional allegations after police say he pleasured himself in front of pre-teen guests at a sleepover and locked one of them in the basement.

Raymond Remus, 45, of Spotswood, was initially arrested on Aug. 22. Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said a week later that two additional victims under the age of 18 have come forward.

Remus now faces four counts each of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

Remus once faced similar charges in Georgia but the charges were dismissed on a technicality.

Recent accusations

According to the affidavit in the initial arrest, Remus started pleasuring himself in front of children at his home in February.

The mother of one of the guests, a boy, went through her son's tablet and found a Snapchat group message in which the boy said he had pleasured himself as well.

The boy also started looking up pornography on his tablet after the party, according to the affidavit.

The next day the boy told his mother that Remus "did something to him" but couldn't remember the details. The boy's mother saved the clothes her son wore at the sleepover, which were given to State Police for analysis.

Investigators said the boy's sweatpants contained saliva in the genital area from the boy, an unknown male and two "less prominent' profiles.  A judge in May ordered a swab of Remus' DNA, which matched the profile of the unknown male, officials said.

A classmate told police that the boy had told him that Remus locked him in the basement and stripped him when the other children went to sleep.

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Similar charges were dismissed in 2022 in Georgia

According to coverage by the Athens Banner-Herald, Remus was indicted by a Georgia grand jury on five counts of child molestation for sexual acts performed on a boy under the age of 10 between 2016 and 2018.

Court documents show that the charges were dismissed in 2022.  A clinical psychologist said that interviews with the victims as a group rather than individually "contaminated" their statements making them "unreliable and unusable."

A judge granted a motion to dismiss.

The Daily Voice was first to report on Remus' Georgia charges.

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