Turnersville man convicted of sex assault in Gloucester County

WOODBURY – A Turnersville man with a prior sex assault conviction was found guilty Tuesday of attacking a woman inside her home three years ago.

Abdul Stanback now faces more than 20 years in state prison, after a jury convicted him of burglary and sexual assault, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Stanback, 39, broke into the woman’s Greenwich Township apartment on Dec. 11, 2015, and attacked the woman.

Experts linked him to DNA evidence from beard hairs the victim ripped out of her attacker’s face, the prosecutor’s office said.

A Greenwich police officer told the jury he "found the shaken woman with her underwear ripped and pushed up to her rib cage,” Prosecutor Charles A. Fiore said in a news release announcing the conviction.

Fiore’s office said Stanback has a 2002 conviction for sex assault and had violated his lifetime supervision and Megan’s Law conditions.

The prosecutor said Stanback can be sentenced to more than the 20-year maximum for first-degree sex assault because of his prior convictions.

Sentencing will be set after Stanback is evaluated at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel.

According to state Department of Corrections records, he has been in custody since October 2016, when he was arrested on Megan's Law and community supervision laws.

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