New charges against husband in Board of Ed wife’s choking

NEWSBREAK: Already accused of trying to kill his wife, Alexander Abramowitz was charged Wednesday with child endangerment after detectives discovered that the Norwood couple’s terrified 13-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were cowering in a bedroom when he tried to choke her with a scarf.

Jerry DeMarco

03/03/2010 9:56 p.m.

Abramowitz, who went to Norwood police headquarters with his lawyer today to be charged with the third-degree crime, remains free pending a Municipal Court appearance later this month

and a determination by a grand jury in Hackensack whether he should be tried on the charges, including attempted murder, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned.

He is living with his parents in Cresskill, free on $850,000 bail and under a judge’s order that he not go near his wife or children.

As a matter of policy, CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM ordinarily doesn’t report domestic cases, so as to protect the children involved. However, this particular incident became common knowledge after the Bergen Record published a story about the alleged attack on Pamela Abramowitz, a Norwood School Board member who has since said she is not seeking re-election this year.

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