FREEHOLD – A Monmouth County Grand Jury has indicted a Manalapan music teacher for allegedly spanking a student for sexual gratification.

Frank Diliberto, Jr., 60, of Winthrop Drive in Manalapan, was a guitar teacher at Musician’s Workshop on Route 9 in Manalapan when he spanked a student multiple times over several month period, authorities said.

In May, Diliberto was charged with second-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 13 and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Charles Webster told the Asbury Park Press that Diliberto is not employed by a school district or employed other than at the Musician's Workshop, which fired him after his arrest.

He was indicted by a Monmouth County Grand Jury earlier this month, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.

Diliberto was lodged in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution in Freehold Township on $200,000 bail with no 10 percent option.

Monmouth County Superior Court Judge David F. Bauman also ordered Diliberto to have no contact with the alleged victim and not to return to Musician's Workshop

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