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A judge just granted the transit agency's request to ban a 36-year-old customer for a year after he had been charged with at least seven separate lewd acts aboard its buses over the past two years, NJ Transit said Friday.
Each of the seven lewd acts was directed toward female bus operators, the agency says. The latest incident, which resulted in the year-long ridership suspension for Sean Guinyard, happened in late August in Willingboro. Another happened in June, while the other five occurred over a span of five months, from May into October, in 2021.
Guinyard, of Washington Township in Gloucester County, pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree contempt charge in Burlington County, and NJ Transit lobbied the judge to include the year-long ban as part of his sentence.The Burlington County court granted the request, suspending Guinyard's NJ Transit riding privileges for a year. Any violation of the suspension will be treated as a probation violation and could land him in jail, the agency added.
NJ Transit confirmed Guinyard's suspension is the first under a law Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed in January 2022 to create new tools for protecting transit workers statewide. Along with upgrading the penalty for assaults on bus operators or rail crew, the law authorizes NJ Transit and other public transit carriers to suspend or ban riders who attack employees or otherwise jeopardize the safety and well-being of the riding public.
This past December, the Board of Directors approved a plan to begin the rule-making process to administratively suspend ridership privileges for people who attack NJ Transit employees while also safeguarding due process rights for offenders to appeal proposed suspensions. The proposed regulations would create progressive sanctions, meaning the length of suspension would increase with each ensuing offense.
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