{"id":21770,"date":"2025-11-01T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21770\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:36:09","slug":"allentown-man-charged-with-raping-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21770\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man charged with raping child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man is accused of raping a child 10 years ago in the city, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Tavares, 25, was arraigned Friday on charges alleging he raped the boy, who was 5 years old at the time, in a home on South Ninth Street, District Attorney Gavin Holihan said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged victim reported in April that Tavares sexually assaulted him in 2015, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Tavares remains free on $50,000 unsecured bail. He is charged with rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, endangering child welfare, indecent assault and corruption of minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man is accused of raping a child 10 years ago in the city, according to authorities.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-21770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}