A Piscataway Township Police officer was arrested Thursday after he was accused of following a young woman and a child around a store in South Plainfield while aroused, authorities said.
Wesley Kliwinski, 37, of Hamilton, was charged with third-degree endangering the welfare of a child by engaging in sexual conduct, fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, and harassment, a petty disorderly person’s offense, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the South Plainfield Police Department announced Friday.
The investigation began on Wednesday when it was reported to police that a man, identified Friday as Kliwinski, was following the woman and child around the unidentified store while clearly aroused, according to a statement from the agencies.
Some of the conduct was captured on video surveillance, the office said.
The investigation also revealed that Kliwinski engaged in the same behavior in another store in the borough, police said.
The agencies did not say when the alleged incidents occurred.
Kliwinski was released from the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Center after his initial court appearance, the office said.
Neither a spokesman for the Piscataway Township Police Department nor a spokesman for the town could immediately be reached for comment on Kliwinski’s status with the department.
The incidents are under investigation and anyone with information was asked to call South Plainfield Police Department Detective Thomas Rutter at 908-226-7663 or Detective Haley Hlavka of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-3287.
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