YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A day laborer from Hackensack was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after authorities said he hit a 3-year-old child in the face and on the back with a leather belt.
Luis Pacheco, 28, was charged with child endangerment on Friday after staff members at the youngster’s preschool called Hackensack police about the injuries, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.
City police notified his Special Victims Unit, as well as the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, Molinelli said, and the child was medically examined and interviewed at the Audrey Hepburn Children’s House in Hackensack.
“During that interview, as well as additional interviews conducted with the victim’s family members, specific details were learned regarding what had occurred,” the prosecutor said.
Pacheco, who is married, is scheduled for arraignment on Wednesday.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
