{"id":290182,"date":"2026-07-08T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:22:22","slug":"new-york-man-accused-of-whipping-12-year-old-boy-with-belt-in-hate-crime-attack-police-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290182\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man accused of whipping 12-year-old boy with belt in hate crime attack: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A New York man was accused of whipping a 12-year-old boy with a belt and making anti-LGBTQIA+ remarks toward the child, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kevin Maxwell (Photo: New York Police Department)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783513342_111_7b4ad6fa-9d45-425c-be9c-a510f4ac04bd-Screenshot20260707at2.54.13PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Maxwell (Photo: New York Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>The New York Police Department (NYPD) on Sunday said 37-year-old Kevin Maxwell, of Brooklyn, was arrested on the following charges: <\/p>\n<p>Two counts of hate crime\/assaultTwo counts of assaultActing in manner injurious to a childHate crime\/menacingMenacing<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the alleged attack happened on April 29 around 6 p.m. near a playground at the NYCHA Baruch Houses. <\/p>\n<p>Police said Maxwell approached the 12-year-old boy and started yelling anti-LGBTQIA+ statements at the boy. Investigators said he then hit the child with a belt before leaving the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The boy suffered minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD previously released a sketch of the suspect and asked for the public&#8217;s help in identifying him.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Police said the alleged attack remains under investigation by the department&#8217;s Hate Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A New York man was accused of whipping a 12-year-old boy with a belt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-290182","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\/290182","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=290182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}