Store Owner Filmed Underage Employee In Bathroom: Morris Co Prosecutor

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ — A store owner now faces child pornography charges after Morris County officials said he recorded an underage female employee using the bathroom last year.

Officials originally charged 35-year-old Nicholas Zirpoli of Lincoln Park in December, saying he used a device to videotape several male and female employees using the restroom at the Roxbury Plato’s Closet. He is also accused of destroying evidence related to these acts.

The Morris County Prosecutor's Office later said that one of the employees he recorded was a juvenile female, and one was an adult male.

On Thursday, Feb. 15, the county prosecutor's office announced Zirpoli faces additional charges of first-degree manufacturing child pornography, second-degree filming a child in a prohibited sexual act, third-degree possessing child pornography, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and another third-degree count of invasion of privacy.

Members of the Roxbury Township Police Department and Morris County Prosecutor’s Sex Crimes/Child Endangerment Unit participated in the investigation leading to Zirpoli’s arrest, Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll said.

Officials originally charged him with nine counts of invasion of privacy, a crime of the third degree, and one count of tampering with evidence, a crime of the fourth degree.

Zirpoli was released from the Morris County Correctional Facility on Feb. 8 on pre-trial monitoring conditions, officials said.

Anyone with information relating to this investigation is asked to call the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes/Child Endangerment Unit at 973-285-6200 or the Roxbury Township Police Department at 973-448-2100.

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