Rutgers Student Committed Lewd Acts In Campus Library, Prosecutor Says

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A 21-year-old Rutgers student is charged with more than a dozen acts of lewdness police say he committed inside the Dickson Carr Library at the school.

He was also charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, said Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone.

The student is Jihad Goines, 21, of Monmouth Junction. He is a current Rutgers student.

Starting in October, Rutgers Police began investigating multiple complaints of a man performing lewd acts inside the library, located on the Piscataway campus. The incidents were reported from October through December.

Goines was arrested last Thursday, and charged with three counts of fourth-degree Criminal Sexual Contact and seven counts of Lewdness, which is classified as a disorderly persons offense.

Police say that from November 2023 to December 2024, he committed similar lewd acts in the Royal Oaks apartment complex in Monmouth Junction. South Brunswick women told police the man approached them completely naked “while he aggressively manipulates his waist area.”

He approached women during the night between 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., but in September he started approaching women earlier in the day, said police.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Ashley Blackwell of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-3465, Officer Jamal Benbow of the South Brunswick Police Department at 732-329-4646, or Detective Edwin Tejada of the Rutgers University Police Department at 732- 932-7211.