{"id":279848,"date":"2026-06-27T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:54:08","slug":"bronx-rape-case-creep-sought-for-attacking-13-year-old-girl-in-secluded-area-of-van-cortlandt-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279848\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx rape case: Creep sought for attacking 13-year-old girl in secluded area of Van Cortlandt Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1575-26-Rape-50-Pct-06-23-26-Photo.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"images of suspect in Bronx rape case\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Bronx rape case: Creep sought for attacking 13-year-old girl in secluded area of Van Cortlandt Park 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Special victims detectives in the Bronx are looking for the brute who raped a 13-year-old girl inside Van Cortlandt Park earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Special victims detectives in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/bronx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx<\/a> are looking for the brute who raped a 13-year-old girl inside Van Cortlandt Park earlier this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released images on Friday night of the suspect wanted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/police-fire\/new-york-rethinks-sex-crime-cases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heinous sex crime<\/a>, which occurred at about 10 p.m. on June 23 near the corner of Broadway and West 261st Street.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the trouble began when the perpetrator approached the girl as they rode a northbound Bx9 bus, which stopped at the location.\n<\/p>\n<p>The creep and the victim both exited the bus, and cops said the suspect went on the attack \u2014 grabbing the girl and dragging her into the park within a secluded wooden area. Once inside the park, police reported, the perpetrator sexually assaulted the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the creep fled the location in an unknown direction.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137856490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-27-at-9.12.40-AM.jpg\" alt=\"scene of bronx rape in van cortlandt park\" width=\"1200\" height=\"690\" title=\"Bronx rape case: Creep sought for attacking 13-year-old girl in secluded area of Van Cortlandt Park 2\"  \/>Police said the horrific rape occurred at about 10 p.m. on June 23 in an area of Van Cortlandt Park near the corner of Broadway and West 261st Street.Photo via Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd50pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">50th Precinct<\/a>. EMS brought the victim to a local hospital for treatment; she was listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The images showed the suspect on board the bus wearing what appeared to be a light-colored hooded sweatshirt with a stylized U, along with gray pants and black sneakers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts can call the NYPD\u2019s Sex Crimes\u00a0Hotline at 1-212-267-7273 or 646-610-7272, or Crime Stoppers 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Special victims detectives in the Bronx are looking for the brute who raped a 13-year-old girl inside Van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,4452,15899,56481,784,107443,9,24,63,107150,791,793,308,85356,3019,9655,23527,129,131,130,18230,9105],"class_list":["post-279848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-crime","tag-bronx-news","tag-bus-incident","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-missing-suspect","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-alert","tag-nypd-investigation","tag-police-search","tag-public-safety","tag-rape-investigation","tag-sexual-assault","tag-special-victims-unit","tag-teen-victim","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-van-cortlandt-park","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279848","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=279848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}