Man is said to have sexually abused girls from the age of five for years

Hassan Hameen during his detention hearing.

A man accused of sexually abusing a young relative over several years starting when she was five years old was sentenced to prison this week.

Hassan Hameen, 47, is accused of abusing the girl “hundreds of times” between the ages of 5 and 16 while living in various cities, including Atlantic City and Mays Landing.

The victim, now an adult, went to Hamilton Township police in May with audio recordings in which Hameen admitted to the sexual acts and claimed the girl participated, according to information released during his detention hearing.

“Did you not play a role?” Hameen is said to have said in excerpts quoted in the affidavit of probable cause.

“You never said stop,” he is said to have told her in one recording. “You never said stop.”

Hameen was referring to incidents at a home on Massachusetts Avenue in Atlantic City and at Oak Crest Estates in Mays Landing.

He is charged with nine counts, including two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault.

The victim is now in her twenties. Because of the age of the case, it is not subject to the Jessica Lunsford Act, which provides a possible prison sentence of 25 years to life for victims of sexual violence under the age of 13. The law came into effect in 2014.

When Judge Pam D’Arcy ordered Hameen’s detention, she found that he had made incriminating statements.

“The court finds these to be shocking statements,” she said. “What particularly struck the court is that he does not take responsibility for the sexual assault on the child, but instead places the blame on the victim.”

Hameen now lives with his wife and two children in Sicklerville, Camden County, and works for the CRDA in Atlantic City, his attorney told the judge.

The children’s ages and genders were not disclosed in court, but Assistant District Attorney Tiffany DeGrandmaison said the Child Protection and Permanency Unit was involved.

Defense attorney Fayyaz Ahmed presented several certificates of good conduct to the court on Hameen’s behalf.

The judge noted the loud protest and found that the crimes Hameen is accused of were things “that one would not admit to a friend or relative.”

“I have no doubt that they are decent people,” D’Arcy said of the letter writers. “And they have no idea what happened when he was alone with that child.”

D’Arcy also contradicted the defense’s claim that Hameen had a long criminal history and two nonviolent crimes in 1996 and 1998.

“He was not following the law for long periods of time, because according to the victim’s testimony and his confirmation, it was an 11-year period of numerous sexual assaults,” D’Arcy said. “So he was indeed not following the law.”

Hameen will now remain in the Atlantic County Correctional Facility.