{"id":6757,"date":"2025-10-17T18:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6757\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:56:26","slug":"cops-nab-man-accused-of-taking-girl-13-into-bronx-woods-performing-lewd-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6757\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops nab man accused of taking girl, 13, into Bronx woods, performing lewd act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have arrested the man they said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/16\/girl-dragged-park-sexually-assaulted-creep-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:forced a 13-year-old Bronx girl into a wooded area, where he performed a lewd act in her presence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">forced a 13-year-old Bronx girl into a wooded area, where he performed a lewd act in her presence<\/a>, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oneil Kennedy, 45, was taken into custody at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, less than 12 hours after he allegedly approached the young teen as she made her way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baychesterwaves.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Baychester Middle School;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Baychester Middle School<\/a> that morning, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He stopped the girl near Seton Falls Park near E. 233rd St. and Wilder Ave. in Edenwald, then coerced her into following him into the woods, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Once in the woods, Kennedy forced the child to lift up her blouse while he pleasured himself, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He then ran off, leaving the child alone in the woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teen reported the incident that morning, giving police a very detailed description of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cops found Kennedy Thursday afternoon. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how officers managed to track him down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police charged him with endangering the welfare of a child, public lewdness, stalking and harassment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested the man they said forced a 13-year-old Bronx girl into a wooded area, where he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[5305,128,6060,9,24,63,5603,129,131,130,5308],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-baychester-middle-school","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-criminal-court","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-oneil-kennedy","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-wooded-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","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=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}