Marc Piovanetti, former guitarist for the crossover thrash band Carnivore, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault of a minor, amongst different offenses. His spouse Jennifer was additionally arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a kid.
In keeping with an official press launch from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Workplace, authorities have been notified a couple of little one between the ages of 13 and 16 that went lacking from New York Metropolis and was believed to be in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Upon investigation, the Fort Lee Police Division situated the kid on the house of Marc and Jennifer Piovanetti.
Per the press launch, the encounter is described as follows:
“The investigation revealed that MARC PIOVANETTI, a stranger to the sufferer, engaged in dialog with the kid on TurnUp, a social media software, and made preparations to satisfy. MARC PIOVANETTI supplied the kid with marijuana and sexually assaulted the kid in his residence between Saturday, February 22, 2025, and Sunday, February 23, 2025. In the course of the course of the investigation, detectives decided that JENNIFER PIOVANETTI was at house in the identical residence on the time of the incident, and he or she was conscious of the kid’s presence, together with one other little one beneath the age of 13 who was additionally there.”
Marc Piovanetti, 58, was charged with 4 counts of second-degree sexual assault; second-degree luring; second-degree endangering the welfare of a kid; and two counts of third-degree endangering the welfare of a kid. Jennifer Piovanetti, 50, was charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a kid and third-degree endangering the welfare of a kid.
Each Marc and Jennifer Piovanetti are in custody of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Workplace, awaiting an look at Bergen County Superior Court docket in Hackensack, New Jersey.
This isn’t Marc Piovanetti’s first offense, as he was sentenced to 10 years’ probation and registered as a intercourse offender for the rape of a kid beneath 15 years previous again in 2017, in keeping with Each day Voice New Jersey.
Carnivore are greatest often called the band Peter Steele fashioned and fronted within the Nineteen Eighties previous to forming Kind O Destructive. Marc Piovanetti joined the group in 1987, showing on their second and closing album, Retaliation. The band broke up shortly thereafter, however re-formed (with Piovanetti) from 1994 via 1996, and once more (with out Piovanetti) from 2006 till Steele’s loss of life in 2010 .
In 2016, Piovanetti and unique Carnivore drummer Lou Beato fashioned a brand new incarnation of the band known as Carnivore A.D., though each have since exited the group. None of the present members have been ever within the unique Carnivore.
Along with Carnivore, Piovenetti was additionally briefly a member of the thrash band Crumbsuckers from 1988 to 1989.