Custodian Admits Wanting To Make Kids Sick With Urine, Feces And Chemicals

Giovanni A. Impellizzeri, 27, from Vineland, was employed as a custodian at the Elizabeth F. Moore School in Upper Deerfield Township since September 2019. In 2023, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutors Office, the school contacted New Jersey State Police after receiving anonymous tips alleging that he urinated in mixing bowls, rubbed his genitals and anus on bread, sprayed bleach into a container of cucumbers, and boasted about putting feces in food.

After pleading guilty in the case on Monday, the former Cumberland County school custodian faces eight years in prison when sentenced. Authorities said Impellizzeri posted videos of some of the contamination on the messaging app Telegram and wrote about what he had done. An anonymous tipster shared his posts with school officials, leading to his arrest.

Impellizzeri was charged with third-degree aggravated assault, two counts of third-degree tampering with food products, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and attempted endangering the welfare of a child. Additionally, he faces a second-degree official misconduct charge.

In response to the vile acts, the Upper Deerfield Township School District collaborated with health authorities to thoroughly sanitize food preparation areas, utensils, and surfaces. Any contaminated food was discarded. Fortunately, health officials reported that the risk to students was minimal, and no illnesses were reported.

After he was arrested in the contamination case, Impellizzeri was additionally charged with child pornography possession and distribution in an unrelated case in Vineland. In the Vineland case, he was charged with second-degree endangering and child pornography distribution and third-degree child pornography possession charges.

The defendant claimed he committed the acts to make children sick and because the behavior sexually aroused him, prosecutors previously alleged. The school serves students in grades 3 to 5.

During questioning by defense attorney Emily Bell, he admitted that his role was to clean the school and maintain its sanitation.

“By manipulating the utensils in the kitchen, potentially spraying bleach, other chemicals around, would you agree that that is the opposite of what your job was?” And the only reason you were able to do it was because of your job?”

“Yes,” Impellizzeri answered.

Assistant Prosecutor Lindsey Seidel then quizzed him on his intent.

“You would also agree that by placing bodily fluids around the school and on objects that the children had access to and would use was an unauthorized function of your position as well, and your intent in doing all of these things was to harm the children that were going to that school?”

Impellizzeri answered yes to both questions.

On the child pornography charge, he acknowledged possessing videos depicting child sexual abuse, including videos of toddlers and infants, on his cellphone.

According to the agreement, prosecutors will recommend a five-year sentence for the official misconduct charge. This would require him to serve the full five years, followed by a consecutive three-year term for the endangering charge.

Impellizzeri will forfeit any future public employment, and the prosecutor’s office will seek lifetime parole supervision due to the endangering and child pornography charges.

Prior to his sentencing in March, Impellizzeri will receive a psychological evaluation to assess his need for sex offender treatment during his prison term.

This story is disturbing in many ways, but the most disturbing thing to me is what we don’t know. If he worked there since 2019, what else did he do before he started posting his sickness on social media.

IMHO, eight years doesn’t seem like enough time for all of this disturbed individual’s demons to be exorcised.