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New Jersey middle school teacher sexually assaults 17-year-old boy met on Roblox

May 25, 2025Union City, United States1 source

Summary

A New Jersey middle school teacher met a 17-year-old boy on Roblox online before sexually assaulting him in the garage of the teacher’s home in Union City. Juan C. Sanchez Moya, 26, is accused of sexually assaulting the teen in late April and later "sexualizing" him in a bathroom at an Aldi supermarket in North Bergen in late May. Moya is also alleged to have exchanged explicit photos with the teen and attempted to arrange another meeting near a Crunch Fitness in North Bergen. The teen’s mother reported the incidents to Union City police on May 25. Moya is charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and distributing obscene material to a minor. The alleged victim is not a student at West New York Middle School.

Incident Details

Domain
Child Safety

Harms involving the exploitation, abuse, or endangerment of minors, including CSAM and grooming.

Harm Types
Grooming

Online contact by adults seeking to build trust with minors for exploitation.

Sextortion
Mechanism
contact
Severity
Minor involved
Platforms
Recipient
Individuala 17-year-old teenage boy
Dimensions
physicalpsychologicalautonomydiscriminatory

Sources

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