Suspended Manalapan cop charged with teen stalking and sexting

MANALAPAN – A suspended city police officer accused of sexting and then stalking a 16-year-old girl during a week-long campaign of harassment and official misconduct in August 2023 has been charged in the case.

Kevin Ruditsky, 47, has been charged with 19 counts: engaging in a pattern of official misconduct, nine counts of official misconduct, three counts of computer criminal activity, three counts of child endangerment and single counts of hindering his own apprehension , impersonating a law enforcement officer (while suspended) and stalking.

The official misconduct charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

Ruditsky met the victim at the National Night Out event in Manalapan on August 1, 2023.

On the night of the annual community outreach campaign, which Ruditsky had helped organize in the past, the officer let the teen sit in his patrol car after she complained that she was hot, according to the affidavit of probable cause accompanying the complaint against him added. .

While they were in the car together, the officer eventually exchanged their contact information on Snapchat and Ruditsky began sending her a message later that night expressing his desire to kiss her, the complaint said.

Those messages included a photo of himself with his hand down his pants and the caption that he became sexually aroused when he thought about her, the complaint said.

Other messages the 46-year-old police officer sent to the girl concerned his desire to kiss her “so bad” and an admonition to “please don’t tell anyone”; that he missed her lips, which accompanied a photo of himself in uniform; and that he promised to give her a Police Benevolent Association card when she turned 17, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

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A day after the National Night Out event, Ruditsky stopped a car she was riding in with friends as they left a local Wendy’s restaurant. He asked her to get out of the car, then handcuffed her and tried to kiss her, the complaint said.

After the teen refused to reveal where she lived, Ruditsky accessed her personal information through his department’s law enforcement database and keyed in her home address. A day after the incident in which the vehicle was stopped and handcuffed, the officer drove several miles into neighboring Marlboro in his marked patrol vehicle and sat outside the home where she lives, the complaint said.

The charges related to computer theft and hindering apprehension were filed because he allegedly accessed official government data for his personal use and turned off all his cameras and recording equipment while unlawfully detaining the teen, the complaint said.

Ruditsky, who has been a police officer since 1999, was suspended without pay from his $133,768-a-year position with the Manalapan Police Department after his arrest on Aug. 30.

Manalapan Police Chief Edward Niesz said after Ruditsky’s arrest that the department was “deeply saddened and disturbed that this victim’s trust was betrayed by a man wearing one of our uniforms.”

Ruditsky’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.

Ken Serrano covers crime, breaking news and investigations. Reach him at 732-643-4029 or at [email protected].

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