A former state Department of Children and Families caseworker is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage girl who was under the supervision of the department and state police have arrested him. The DCF worker, 40-year-old Eliezer Rijos, of Watertown, resigned after the allegations surfaced. He has been charged with risk of injury to a child and tampering…
A former state Department of Children and Families caseworker is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage girl who was under the supervision of the department and state police have arrested him.
The DCF worker, 40-year-old Eliezer Rijos, of Watertown, resigned after the allegations surfaced. He has been charged with risk of injury to a child and tampering with physical evidence, state police said. State police said he was arrested after an investigation into alleged interactions during the summer of 2022 with a teenage girl who was under the supervision of DCF while Rijos was employed by the department.
State police started investigating on Aug. 29 when Wolcott police reached out to them about allegations of an inappropriate relationship between Rijos and a 15-year-old.They said he had been using his personal and state-issued phones to text the teen, possibly while he was at work, and the texts were sexually charged.
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