{"id":214054,"date":"2026-04-29T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214054\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:04:08","slug":"bronx-rape-case-cops-nab-man-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-12-year-old-girl-inside-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214054\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx rape case: Cops nab man accused of sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl inside apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC06067-copy.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"DSC06067 copy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Bronx rape case: Cops nab man accused of sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl inside apartment 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/bronx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx<\/a> have arrested and charged a 34-year-old man after he allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl inside an apartment earlier this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, Jos\u00e9 Ramos was charged on April 28 with second-degree rape and acting in a manner injurious to a child.\n<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the heinous attack occurred sometime between the evening of April 26 and the early morning of April 27 inside a building in the area of West 174th Street and University Avenue in Morris Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Ramos allegedly knocked on an apartment door, and the 12-year-old girl allowed him inside the dwelling. While Ramos\u2019 relationship to the child is not exactly clear, sources familiar with the case report that they were acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were watching movies together when he allegedly made his attack and sexually assaulted the child, sources familiar with the case said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd46pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">46th Precinct<\/a> were called to the location at about 3 a.m. on April 27. The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said Ramos had no prior arrests, and may have been smoking marijuana with the victim prior to going on the attack, according to law enforcement sources.\n<\/p>\n<p>Through April 26, the 46th Precinct had reported 16 rape incidents year-to-date, up from 14 at the same point in 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is a victim of sexual assault, help is available by calling the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Dean Moses &#13; &#13; Police in the Bronx have arrested and charged a 34-year-old man after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,9,24,63,103,104,3018,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-214054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-rape","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}