Crime & Safety

Sex Offender Arrested For Using Social Media, Bergen Prosecutor Says

A registered sex offender from Newark is back in custody after he violated a court order to stay off social media websites, prosecutors said Wednesday.


Thaddeus Gill, 46, a former Lodi resident, was sentenced in 2002 for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Passaic County, according to the state sex offender database. His sentence of lifetime community supervision barred him accessing social media.


Investigators learned Gill was using a variety of screen names online including “TGil,” ”Tgil3036” and “Thad Gi,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement.

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Gill remained held at the Bergen County Jail on $25,000 bail, with no ten percent option after being arrested Monday, Molinelli said.


Anyone who communicated with the accounts online was asked to contact the prosecutor’s office at 201-646-2300.

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