{"id":284244,"date":"2026-07-01T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284244\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:48:38","slug":"news-12-bronx-yonkers-man-charged-with-rape-of-13-year-old-girl-in-the-bronx-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284244\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Yonkers Man Charged With Rape Of 13 Year Old Girl In The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say a Yonkers man is facing a slew of charges for allegedly <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/man-wanted-for-raping-13-year-old-girl-in-van-cortlandt-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raping a 13-year-old girl<\/a> in Van Cortlandt Park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Abundio Hernandez Cantu, 36, was arrested, arraigned and granted supervised release on Monday. He is accused of carrying out the attack on June 23.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, Cantu approached the girl around 9 p.m. aboard a Bx9 bus and grabbed her when she exited the bus at Broadway and West 261 Street. Police say he proceeded to drag the girl into a wooded area inside the park, where he allegedly sexually assaulted her before running away.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed the 13-year-old to a nearby hospital, where she is expected to recover physically.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released images of Cantu three days after the assault.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He now faces second- and third-degree rape, endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree sexual abuse and sexual misconduct charges.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The assistant district attorney requested that Cantu be granted supervised release in order to conduct a more thorough investigation and the judge granted it, according to a law enforcement source. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A spokesperson for the Bronx District Attorney&#8217;s Office tells News 12 that Cantu does not have a criminal record in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is expected back in court on July 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors say a Yonkers man is facing a slew of charges for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-284244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/284244","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=284244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}