Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Chief Thomas Bryan of the Edison Police Department announced today that a man employed as a summer camp counselor and school bus monitor has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting two young boys in separate incidents.
Alex Farkas, 25, of the Iselin section of Woodbridge was arrested and charged on September 21, 2015 with one count of aggravated sexual assault, and two counts each of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Farkas was employed as a bus monitor by the Edison Branch of the YMCA and as a camp counselor at the Oakcrest Family Swim Club in Edison.
He is being held at the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in North Brunswick, waiting for bail to be set.
He was charged during an investigation by Detective Michael Horvath of the Edison Police Department and Detective Donald Heck of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigation began after one of the victims told a relative about the assaults.
The investigation determined that while working as a bus monitor and camp counselor, Farkas sexually assaulted a boy on the bus and at the camp on numerous occasions between March 2015 and September 2015.
In the separate case, he was charged with improperly touching another boy on the bus on various occasions between July 2015 and September 2015.
The investigation is active and is continuing.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Horvath of the Edison Police Department at (732) 248-7344, or Detective Heck of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-3600.