Long Branch Middle School Teacher Arrested

LONG BRANCH, NJ — A teacher in the Long Branch public school system was arrested Thursday morning after the Mercer County Prosecutor accused him of engaging in sexually explicit emails, text messages and phone conversations with whom he thought was a 14-year-old boy.

Jesse Rosenbaum, a 65-year-old science teacher at Long Branch Middle School, was arrested Thursday morning in Manalapan, where he lives. He is charged with one count of third-degree attempted endangering the welfare of a child, said Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri.

Rosenbaum was taken into custody during a car stop near his Manalapan home by detectives with the Mercer Prosecutor's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit and Special Victims Unit (SVU).

Rosenbaum was the subject of a recent ICAC investigation into the sexual exploitation of children online. The prosecutor said he was soliciting underage males (under 18) online to participate in sexual acts and sexual conversation. The complaint alleges Rosenbaum engaged in sexually explicit emails, text messages and phone conversations with an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old male.

He is being held in the Mercer County Correctional Center pending a detention hearing.

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