Former New Jersey mayor, 71, pleads guilty to raping child relative when she was six for two years

(DailyMail) - A former New Jersey mayor could spend the rest of his life in prison for raping a child relative.
Former Republican Marlboro mayor Matthew V. Scannapieco, 71, admitted to detectives that he had sexual contact with a female child relative 50 to 60 times between 2006 and 2008, reports the Asbury Park Press.

The sexual abuse began when the girl was six, reports Delaware Online.

The now-teen girl told her mother in June 2014 about the abuse while she was younger.

In May, he pleaded guilty to pleaded guilty to the repeated sexual abuse of a child, first-degree rape and unlawful sexual contact in the first degree.

Scannapieco was the mayor of Marlboro, in Monmouth County, from 1992 to 2003.

He was also an honorably discharged veteran.

The abuse mostly stopped after Scannapieco went to prison for taking about $245,000 in bribes from New Jersey developers, but he reportedly admitted to 'touching' her once after his release from prison in 2010.

Scannapieco's sketchy past includes collecting bribes for the then-mayor to push multiple projects through the township's planning board.


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