{"id":310330,"date":"2026-07-31T00:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310330\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:32:49","slug":"news-12-long-island-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310330\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help locating the man who they say sexually abused numerous children across the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Stephen Charles, 42, is accused of abusing six victims from Jan. 1, 2018, to May 5, 2026, in various neighborhoods inside the borough. The youngest victim was a 10-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says the other five victims include three boys &#8211; 11, 13 and 16 years old &#8211; as well as a 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 did not locate Charles on the New York State sex offender registry.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help locating the man who they say sexually abused numerous children across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-310330","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\/310330","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=310330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}