July 24, 2024
Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Old Bridge Police Chief Thomas J. Montagna announce today that an Old Bridge husband and wife were sentenced on July 9, 2024, in connection with the unlicensed practice of medicine and two sexual assaults that occurred in July 2022.
An initial investigation led by Detective Jessica Caffey of the Old Bridge Police Department revealed that on July 20, 2022, an adult female victim went to receive medical treatment at the residence of Orger Sibaja-Bolanos, 67, of Old Bridge, who posed as a doctor. Sibaja-Bolanos sexually assaulted her and gave her injections. The investigation determined Sibaja-Bolanos was not a medical doctor. Sibaja-Bolanos was arrested and charged with second-degree Sexual Assault, third-degree Aggravated Assault, and third- degree Unlicensed Practice of Medicine.
Thereafter on August 8, 2022, a second adult female victim came forward. Further investigation determined that Sibaja-Bolanos sexually assaulted her and gave her injections on multiple occasions in July 2022. Sibaja-Bolanos was charged with second-degree sexual assault, third-degree Unlicensed Practice of Medicine, and third-degree Financial Facilitation.
The subsequent investigation revealed that Sibaja-Bolanos’s wife, Rosa Perez, 64, of Old Bridge, assisted with the unlicensed medical practice. Perez was charged with third- degree Unlicensed Practice of Medicine, third-degree Conspiracy to Commit the Unlicensed Practice of Medicine, and third-degree Financial Facilitation.
On October 23, 2023, Perez pled guilty to third-degree Conspiracy to Commit the Unlicensed Practice of Medicine. On January 1, 2024, Sibaja-Bolanos pled guilty to two counts of second-degree Sexual Assault.
On July 9, 2024, Sibaja-Bolanos was sentenced before the Honorable Sheree V. Pitchford, J.S.C. to an aggregate term of 10 years in the custody of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, subject to the No Early Release Act (NERA), which means he will have to serve 85 percent of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole. Upon his release from prison, Sibaja-Bolanos must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be on Parole Supervision for Life.
Perez was sentenced to 3 years of probation with the condition of serving 364 days in the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Facility at the end of her sentence should she violate the terms of probation.
The case was prosecuted by Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Lauren Panfile and investigated by the Old Bridge Township Police Department.
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