{"id":314533,"date":"2026-08-05T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314533\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:06:07","slug":"manhattan-therapist-charged-with-raping-transgender-patient-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314533\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan therapist charged with raping transgender patient, 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Manhattan therapist has been charged with raping his 17-year-old transgender patient<\/a> during a session at his Midtown office, and may have other victims, officials said.<\/p>\n

Remington Yhap\u2019s website biography said his psychotherapy focus is LGBTQ+ mental health and depression, and it was in that capacity that he was seeing the teenage patient, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

It was during a June 15 session at Yhap\u2019s Sixth Ave. office that the therapist penetrated the victim\u2019s vagina with his penis, and received and gave oral sex, according to court papers.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Yhap, 47, also showed the victim photos of nude people and asked him several times if he was masturbating when he was 16.<\/p>\n

Yhap started seeing the patient last September.<\/p>\n

He was arrested on July 29 on three counts of rape, plus a single count of endangering the welfare of a child, officials said.<\/p>\n

The defendant was arraigned and pleaded not guilty.\u00a0He was released on $75,000 cash bail, and is\u00a0due back in court Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis investigation is ongoing,\u201d a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cThe Manhattan D.A.\u2019s Office encourages any survivors of sexual assault to call the Office\u2019s Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Bureau at 212-335-9373.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yhap was a therapist at Liberation Psychotherapy,<\/a> which encourages active listening, empathy and unconditional positive regard, according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan therapist has been charged with raping his 17-year-old transgender patient during a session at his Midtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2882,75,84,83,9,24,63,118745,3018,118497,12412,86838,9889],"class_list":["post-314533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-child-endangerment","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-psychotherapy","tag-rape","tag-remington-yhap","tag-teenager","tag-therapist","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314533","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=314533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}