MASSAGE THERAPIST CHARGED WITH ANOTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced today that as a result of an ongoing investigation, Jonathan Higgins, age 28, of Toms River, has been charged again with Sexual Assault of another victim, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2c(1). Higgins was arrested yesterday, August 2, 2019, in connection with a separate incident that occurred with another victim on May 21, 2019.
Prosecutor Billhimer alleges that Higgins, while employed as a massage therapist at Hand and Stone Massage & Facial Spa in Brick Township, committed an act of penetration on a female customer during the course of a massage on May 21, 2019. Higgins was previously arrested and charged with Sexual Assault on June 27, 2019. Yesterday’s arrest was a result of a continuing investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and the Brick Township Police Department.
Higgins was arrested and processed at Brick Township Police Headquarters. Higgins was transported to the Ocean County Jail where he is lodged pending a detention hearing.
Prosecutor Billhimer is urging anyone having information or who feels they may be a victim to please contact Detective Nicole Testa of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-929-2027 or Detective Timothy McCarthy of the Brick Township Police at 732-262-1100.
The public and media are reminded that all defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
What a piece of shit.
Kimberly Sedivec Dowling holy shit, really?!
Christopher Boice yup
Daaaaaaaamn! What a scumbag!
Alissa Marie Joscelyne Sinnott
I call bullshit… Think they need to see of there a connection between the two females
Robb Smith I call bullshit too.
Shi Don all of a sudden another female is accuseing him… They need to see if there a connection between them two females.. The first female is bullshit lier trying to get money and cause he was release cause there no probly cause i bet she had her friend say the same thing so it looks good…
How can you say in a headline
Massage therapist sexually assaults another female? Do you know for a fact he did? He’s been arrested but it’s not guilty until proven innocent. It’s innocent until proven guilty. I don’t know him but until a jury finds him guilty, isn’t it premature to use that wording in a headline?
Carol Perri it says he’s being charged with another sexual assault didn’t say he’s been convicted or proven guilty with anything yet…yes innocent until proven guilty but sadly if it’s true think of the women he’s done this too as well
Robin Lee read the headline.
Carol Perri yes I saw that as well…and I did say he is innocent until proven guilty and if he’s found guilty may he be punished for something so vile and disgusting…if he’s found innocent may the women also be punished to the max for lying and ruining a man’s life…
Robin Lee Exactly. I agree
Bottom Of Story has standard disclaimer that suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
Ocean County Scanner News That’s terrific but you led with a headline stating he sexually assaulted another female. That headline made it seem he’s guilty of it and not just arrested for it.
The headline is what everyone reads first.
Carol Perri
Maybe people need to take the 15 seconds to read a full story?
Ocean County Scanner News Well I certainly did read further because I knew he was accused earlier and by reading your headline, I thought he was definitely found guilty of it which wasn’t true.
It’s not the story that’s wrong it’s the headline.
Carol why make such a fuss over a headline. I dont get it. Read the headline… headline caught your attention… you read the story… lmfao instead… your simple mind read the headline… then you read the headline… then read the headline again. Lmdao..
Lmdao I wasnt completely sure. But you’ve made stupid comments on posts on Facebook before I’ve commented on… is this what people do when they retire… just sit around and complain.. lmfao go find yourself a hobby that involves some real results. Volunteers are always needed down at the hospital! Lmfao I’m sure the place this dude worked will be accepting applications for people willing to rub some people.
Josh Collins guess you were feeling rowdy tonight
Katie Hammerstone. Amanda Glatt. Nikki Tetzlaff
Kayla Marie Rolzhausen omg again
If he did this, then he is a POS , what I don’t like is people coming forward AFTER the Alleged incident
James Spagnoli it’s sad because sometimes it’s hard because as you see in this feed and his previous arrest feed that the woman are always being accused of lying…no not him he’s a great guy…etc. so sometimes it takes one person coming forward to give another the strength to do it…I don’t know him but if he’s found guilty for this he deserves whatever punishment he receives but that’s for the courts and a jury to decide not me or a jury of his peers and friends
James Spagnoli It’s possible that the other victim felt maybe she was imagining it or making a big deal about it and that she was the only one so let it go. And Robin Lee is correct. Everyone is so quick to say the woman is lying so it makes it difficult for them to come forward but finds strength when someone else does and she feels she’s no longer alone. We don’t know if it is true or not but we shouldn’t be so quick to blame the victim because she didn’t come forward the second it happened
Robin Lee O, if he did this, he needs to be “taken care of” however if these females are Fabricating a story, they need to see the inside of a jail cell
James Spagnoli oh I totally agree with that as well…if they are lying and ruin someone’s life they deserve to be in jail as well…
Sondra Mofohana
Why would he go back to the same job?
Tyrese Mincey managers must suck
Scott Therrien I have daughters. I will do life gladly. I hate this shit bro.
Tyrese Mincey This incident happened in May.
Lauren Elyse I work with someone that went to school with him. Sick shit. I hate perverts. If he’s guilty karma will get him.
Lauren Elyse don’t look like it
I believe it happened before the first one it was just reported lately
How is this asshole still working
He isnt, some one else made a report , probably around same time
Joseph Todaro oh
So I’m just curious. Your getting a massage, your therapist touches you inappropriately. Wouldn’t you slap him, yell, leave, something of that extent to get yourself out of that situation.
B.J Brown hell ya! I slap the shit out of him.
Gia Iorio
Amanda Iorio
Angie Schaefer ????
So was he setup again,??
The penetrator
Panties down beaver up what do you think is going to happen.
Bob Allen You’re disgusting! So you’re saying she was asking for it? Pig!
The victim needs to sue the massage place
Was was this jackass still working there
??? and this is what happens in NJ since the Bail Reform Act
And the justice system fails again
This sounds like a setup after this therapist with this 2 girl’s