Teen Mentor In Plainfield Charged With Child Endangerment

PLAINFIELD, NJ — A substitute teacher and teen mentor from Plainfield is charged with child endangerment, and showing obscene material to a child under 18.

Tory James, 23, a Plainfield resident, is currently a substitute teacher at the Queen City Academy Charter School. He also works as a mentor at the Queen City Mentoring Academy, a youth organization for teens.

Both are located in Plainfield.

James was arrested last Friday and charged with second-degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child and third-degree Promoting Obscene Material to a child under the age of 18.

This is an active and ongoing investigation. Anyone with additional information is asked to call Middlesex County Prosecutor's Detective Francin Cifuentes-Nieves at 732-296-1116 or Sergeant Linda Infusino at 732-745-4340.