{"id":308756,"date":"2026-07-29T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308756\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:46:11","slug":"40-year-old-accused-of-raping-15-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308756\/","title":{"rendered":"40-year-old accused of raping 15-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 New York State Police said a 40-year-old raped a 15-year-old boy after using a dating app to set up a meeting with him.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Tasha Evans communicated with the boy through Tinder and arranged a meeting, with a sexual encounter occurring Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began the next day, according to police, after the New York State Office of Children and Family Services made a law enforcement referral.<\/p>\n<p>Police said troopers executed search warrants, seized electronic devices, conducted interviews and obtained evidence that corroborated the victim&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was arrested Friday, according to police, charged with rape and use of a child under age 17 in a sexual performance. <\/p>\n<p>Monroe County Jail records indicate Evans was held on $15,000 bail or $30,000 bond. A court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 New York State Police said a 40-year-old raped a 15-year-old boy after using a dating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-308756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308756","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=308756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}