🔴 Former Woodbridge police officer admitted to years of abuse but received probation.
🔴 Recorded confession detailed repeated assaults over nearly a decade.
🔴 His treatment in New Jersey was much kinder than in Pennsylvania.
WOODBRIDGE — A police officer who admitted in a recorded phone call to molesting his cousin throughout her childhood received little more than a slap on the wrist in the New Jersey court system — even as similar charges against him in Pennsylvania threaten to send him to prison.
Ryan Alcott, 29, of the Sewaren section, was a model citizen in the public eye. The Woodbridge High School graduate served as an auxiliary officer for five years before he was officially sworn in as a police officer in 2022. At the ceremony, Mayor John McCormac said he had known Alcott for nearly two decades, and he was a “good, solid, young man.”
Accusations against police officer shock Woodbridge community
But Angela Marie Valsechi has seen a different side of her older cousin, she told police and New Brunswick Today. In an interview with a Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office detective, Valsechi said Alcott began molesting her in 2008 when she was 8 years old.
Valsechi, who agreed to be named in the published report, said it started with her older cousin pulling her pants down while she was sleeping over at his parents’ home. She soon started waking up to Alcott using his fingers to molest her, according to a criminal complaint…