{"id":310337,"date":"2026-07-31T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:43:09","slug":"nypd-seeking-man-wanted-in-connection-to-sexual-abuse-pattern-that-impacted-6-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310337\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD seeking man wanted in connection to sexual abuse pattern that impacted 6 victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/untitled-july-30-2026-at-20.02.24.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A 42-year-old man is being sought by the NYPD in connection to a sexual abuse pattern.<\/p>\n<p>   Sexual abuse pattern <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Stephen Charles, 42, is wanted by the NYPD in connection to a sexual abuse pattern that has taken place for six years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It was reported to the NYPD that from January 2018 through May 2026, the following victims were allegedly sexually abused by Charles:<\/p>\n<p> one 10-year-old maleone 11-year-old maleone 13-year-old maleone 13-year-old femaleone 16-year-old maleone 18-year-old male <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police are asking for the public&#8217;s assistance in locating this individual. Images have been attached at the top of the story.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Any person with information should call NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information provided by the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; A 42-year-old man is being sought by the NYPD in connection to a sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[850,9,24,12,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-310337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310337","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=310337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}