HAZLET, New Jersey (WABC) -- A volunteer assistant Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts is accused of exchanging multiple sexually explicit text messages with a young boy.
25-year-old Joseph Palermo of Hazlet, New Jersey is charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
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He appeared in a Monmouth County courtroom Friday and was released afterward.
If found guilty Palermo faces three to five years in prison.
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The conditions of his release include no unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18, no contact with the victim and a requirement to report to pretrial services in person once every other week and by phone every other week.
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