Prosecutor: North Jersey man charged with child sex assault, human remains found in closet
Detectives said they found "an alter to an unknown deity" in the Newark residence of Robert Frank Williams.
Mummified human remains were found during a search last week of the residence of a 53-year-old North Jersey man charged with sexually assaulting a child, authorities announced Friday.
Robert Frank Williams was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault and related offenses, as well as second-degree desecration of human remains, said Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose in a news release.
An investigation of Williams was launched after Newark police were told that a 13-year-old child was sexually assaulted by Williams over several months starting in 2018.
On Thursday, Stephens and Ambrose said, detectives executed a search of his residence and “found mummified human remains in a bin in a closet” and “an alter to an unknown deity in his bedroom.”
The investigation was ongoing. No further details were released.