Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said today that a 17-year-old juvenile has been sentenced to serve 60 days in the county’s youth detention center for assaulting a fellow student at New Brunswick High School.
The juvenile, a male whose name is being withheld, also was ordered to serve a probationary term of two years.
In addition, he must pay restitution to the victim’s family, but the amount has yet to be determined by Superior Court Judge James Hyland.
The sentence was imposed on May 11, 2016 during a juvenile court hearing in New Brunswick after the juvenile pleaded guilty to juvenile delinquency for conduct that if committed by an adult would constitute an aggravated assault upon the fellow student, a 15-year-old male at the school.
Aggravated assault is a second degree crime punishable by a maximum term of three years in the New Jersey Training School for Boys in Jamesburg. However, the judge ruled the 60-day term may be served at the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center in North Brunswick.
The judge placed the juvenile under house arrest and ordered him to report to the detention center on June 24 to begin serving his term.
The sentence was imposed during a presentation to the court by Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Linda Estremera.
The juvenile, who was 16 years old at the time, was charged after an investigation by the New Brunswick Police Department determined that he knocked the victim to the floor in a high school corridor on March 10, 2016 and repeatedly punched and kicked the victim, who sustained facial and dental injuries and a sprained collar bone.