4 yr term in case related to Woodbury sex assault

December 23, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO
Phone: (856) 384-5617; Pager (856) 251-4736

Maurice Patterson (DOB 4/1/87), of 700 Red Bank Ave., West Deptford, was sentenced today (12/23) to four years in New Jersey state prison after pleading guilty to third-degree criminal restraint and agreeing to testify against a codefendant in an alleged August 2008 sexual assault on a teenager in a Woodbury NJ park.

Superior Court Judge Walter A. Marshal Jr imposed the prison term pursuant to an Oct. 28 negotiated plea. Under terms agreed to with Senior Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Audrey Curwin, Judge Marshall also ordered that Patterson register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and regularly report where he lives. In plea discussions, Curwin used a provision in criminal law that makes a defendant subject to Megan’s Law in a criminal restraint case, as opposed to a sex offense, when the victim is under age 18. In this case, the victim was 15.

As part of his plea agreement, Patterson is to testify, if needed, against co-defendant Kian Patterson (DOB 8/25/86),of 50 Hopkins St., Woodbury. Kian Patterson is charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal restraint. The location of the alleged assault was Woodbury’s Rotary Park, Barber Ave. Patterson is scheduled for a pre-trial conference in Superior Court, Woodbury on Jan. 8, 2010.