PERTH AMBOY — A Perth Amboy middle school teacher was arrested today on charges he sexually assaulted a student over a six-year period, beginning when the girl was 13, authorities said. Guillermo Santamaria, 56, of Perth Amboy, a social studies teacher in the city's two middle schools for the last 16 years, was charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault,...
PERTH AMBOY — A Perth Amboy middle school teacher was arrested today on charges he sexually assaulted a student over a six-year period, beginning when the girl was 13, authorities said.
Guillermo Santamaria, 56, of Perth Amboy, a social studies teacher in the city's two middle schools for the last 16 years, was charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and official misconduct, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said in statement.
Santamaria, also known as William Santamaria, allegedly assaulted the girl on numerous occasions from the fall of 1997 up to the victim's 18th birthday in 2004, Kaplan said in a joint statement with Perth Amboy police Chief E.J. McDonald.
Investigators Michael Daniewicz and Dave Carmen of the prosecutor's office began investigating the case after the woman contacted that office last month.
Authorities ask that anybody with information on this or similar incident call the investigators at (732) 745-3000.
Santamaria, also an adjunct professor in the software engineering department at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, is being held on $250,000 bail.
