{"id":244496,"date":"2026-05-26T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:34:46","slug":"manhattan-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-child-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244496\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man pleads not guilty to child sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan man pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges against him including 10 counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.<\/p>\n<p>Manfred Adrien Elocka-Ngom, 31, pleaded not guilty to 12 charges in Riley County Court. He faces 10 counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child by engaging in sexual intercourse, contributing to a child\u2019s deprivation and furnishing alcoholic liquor or a cereal malt beverage to a minor.<\/p>\n<p>The charges are alleged to have been committed between July 8 and Oct. 4, 2025 against a child born in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/manhattan-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-child-sex-crimes\/article_78f8b0cb-873f-4cac-a9da-c74d40bd4767.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges against him including 10 counts of aggravated indecent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-244496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244496","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=244496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}