{"id":385025,"date":"2026-10-28T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385025\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:38:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-queens-pediatrician-charged-with-sexual-abuse-involving-teen-and-adult-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385025\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Queens Pediatrician Charged With Sexual Abuse Involving Teen And Adult Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Queens pediatrician has been arrested on sexual abuse charges involving a teenage girl and an adult woman, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Dr. Fazul Yusuf, 72, was arrested Tuesday by the Special Victims Squad following an investigation into multiple incidents involving a 15-year-old female victim and a 20-year-old female victim.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Yusuf is charged with two counts of third-degree sexual abuse, forcible touching and endangering the welfare of a child, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are asking any additional potential victims to come forward.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to contact the NYPD Sex Crimes Hotline at 1-212-267-7273 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens pediatrician has been arrested on sexual abuse charges involving a teenage girl and an adult woman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-385025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385025","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=385025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}