"MIDDLESEX COUNTY — A former male stripper convicted of the attempted sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl he abducted from her parents' front yard in Woodbridge is being sought by authorities after he failed to register his address as a sex offender.
Ronald J. Amate, 43, was convicted in 1993 of the assault on the girl in August 1991. He also admitted to sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Woodbridge by exposing himself then touching the girl's chest before fleeing.
Amate served five years in the prison for sex offenders in Avenel on a 10-year sentence, getting out in 1998.
In February 2000, Amate registered his address with Woodbridge police, listing it as Chain-O-Hills Road in Woodbridge, where he lived when the assaults took place.
He failed to reregister in 2002.
A grand jury indicted him on the fourth-degree charge of failing to provide his address to police in May 2002.
On Aug. 22, 1991, the 5-year-old girl's mother happened to look out the window and saw a man later identified as Amate grab the child and start walking away as he was trying to pull off the child's shorts, authorities said.
Her father jumped out the window, chasing the man shoeless. Police found Amate in the woods off Ronald Drive in the Avenel section of the township.
The sexual assault of the 9-year-old girl in Woodbridge took place on July 17, 1990.
Amate is 6 feet tall, weighs about 189 pounds, and has brown eyes and brown hair.
The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office is asking anyone with information on the fugitive to call (732) 745-3362 during weekdays and (732) 745-3300 on nights and weekends.
Authorities are urging anyone coming into contact with Amate not to try to apprehend him.
The Prosecutor's Office is offering rewards of up to $500 for information leading to the capture of fugitives wanted on charges in the county."
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