northjersey.com
BERGEN, New Jersey -- A former worker at the Metropolitan Plant Exchange in Paramus was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl who briefly wandered away from her mother.
The verdict, which came after three hours of deliberation, will put 25-year-old Silas Quixal in prison for at least 20 years and clears the way for a civil case to proceed against the Route 17 store.
The girl's parents allege in a lawsuit that the store put shoppers in danger by hiring Quixal, who is an undocumented immigrant illegal alien.