{"id":310869,"date":"2026-07-31T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:58:51","slug":"suspect-allegedly-sexually-abused-young-victims-in-the-bronx-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310869\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect allegedly sexually abused young victims in the Bronx, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD wants your help finding a man they suspect of sexually abusing six young victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say they&#8217;re searching for 42-year-old Stephen Charles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stephen-charles-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"stephen-charles-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly sexually abused five boys, aged 10, 11, 13, 16, and 18, as well as a 13-year-old girl, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say the incidents took place across three different precincts in the Bronx, but did not provide specific locations. The alleged abuse took place from 2018 through May of this year, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stephen-charles-2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"stephen-charles-2.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via their website<\/a>\u00a0or via DM on X,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls are kept confidential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD wants your help finding a man they suspect of sexually abusing six young victims.\u00a0 Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,5474,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-310869","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-sexual-abuse","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\/310869","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=310869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}