Patrolman Justin Skelly was charged in January 2025 with second-degree sexual assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Middletown Police Department. The charges involved his relationship with a seventeen-year-old high school student between August and December of 2024, and a grand jury indicted him on December 15, 2025. On April 6, 2026, Skelly entered a guilty plea to third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, permanently forfeited his position and public office in New Jersey, and agreed to have no contact with the victim.
In January 2025, Middletown Police Officer Justin Skelly was charged with second-degree Sexual Assault (supervisory or disciplinary power over someone under 18 years old) and third-degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child. These charges involved his relationship with a seventeen-year old high school student between August and December of 2024. Skelly was indicted by a grand jury for these charges and related offenses on December 15, 2025. **While these charges remained pending as of December 31, 2025, Skelly entered a guilty plea to third-degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child on April 6, 2026. As conditions of his plea, he permanently forfeited his position as a Middletown police officer and permanently forfeited public office in New Jersey. He also agreed to have no contact with the victim.
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What is a summary of Justin Skelly's major discipline record?
Patrolman Justin Skelly was charged in January 2025 with second-degree sexual assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Middletown Police Department. The charges involved his relationship with a seventeen-year-old high school student between August and December of 2024, and a grand jury indicted him on December 15, 2025. On April 6, 2026, Skelly entered a guilty plea to third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, permanently forfeited his position and public office in New Jersey, and agreed to have no contact with the victim.
What is Justin Skelly's major discipline record at Middletown Police Department?
Justin Skelly has one major discipline record at Middletown Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Middletown Police Department, the department Justin Skelly worked for?
Middletown Police Department reported 115 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Justin Skelly individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 468. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8446. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩