{"id":311503,"date":"2026-08-01T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311503\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:40:07","slug":"nypd-arrests-bronx-man-accused-of-sexually-abusing-teens-he-met-at-homeless-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311503\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD arrests Bronx man accused of sexually abusing teens he met at homeless shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"i5l6j\">Police have arrested a Bronx man who is accused of sexually abusing several children \u2014 including some he met at homeless shelters \u2014 over the course of almost a decade. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cc99g\">Stephen Charles, 42, is charged with more than 30 counts of various crimes, including predatory sexual assault against a child, rape, use of a child in sexual performance, promoting a sexual performance by a child and endangering the welfare of a child. He was arrested Friday night.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9guda\">Officials <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/police-searching-for-bronx-man-suspected-of-sexually-abusing-several-children\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">allege he sexually abused<\/a> a 10-year-old boy, an 11-year-old boy, a 13-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old boy. They said the incidents occurred between Jan. 1, 2018 and May 5, 2026. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"aqer1\">Police said one of the victims was a member of Charles\u2019 family, and he met several others while they were all living at the same shelters. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"218nd\">The arrest came a day after the NYPD put out a request asking the public to look out for Charles. He was detained just before 7 p.m. in the 50 precinct, which includes the neighborhoods of Riverdale, Fieldston, Kingsbridge, Marble Hill and Spuyten Duyvil. Charles\u2019 last known address is in Edenwald, according to police. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ep0qr\">Information for Charles\u2019 lawyer was not immediately available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a Bronx man who is accused of sexually abusing several children \u2014 including some he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-311503","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\/311503","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=311503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}