{"id":247925,"date":"2026-05-29T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:18:41","slug":"manhattan-man-accused-of-2-dozen-child-sex-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247925\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man accused of 2-dozen child sex allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RILEY COUNTY \u2014Law enforcement are investigating a suspect for alleged child sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 10:30a.m. Thursday, police arrested 64-year-old Kirk Lee Hartgenbush of Manhattan, in the 700 block of Allen Road, according to the Riley County Police Department activity report.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held on a $100,000 bond on requested charges that include 24 counts of sexual exploitation of a child; possess media of a child under age 18. This arrest stems from a report originally filed in March 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RILEY COUNTY \u2014Law enforcement are investigating a suspect for alleged child sex crimes. Just after 10:30a.m. Thursday, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-247925","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\/247925","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=247925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}