A 31-year-old Reading man has been arrested and charged with rape of a child after, police claim, officials received numerous reports alleging that he sexually assaulted a seven-year-old boy.<\/p>\n
According to police, Matthew Anoka, 31, of Reading, was arrested on Tuesday at his home in Reading and he has been charged with rape of a child, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor and related offenses following an investigation that began in May. <\/p>\n
Police said Anoka’s arrest came after investigators received “multiple” referrals from the state’s Department of Human Services that claimed Anoka had sexually abused a seven-year-old boy. <\/p>\n
Following an investigation, police say the victim told officials Anoka sexually abused him and showed him explicit pictures and videos. <\/p>\n
Police said the abuse allegedly occurred in April at a property in Kenhorst Borough, in Berks County. <\/p>\n
Anoka was arrested at his Reading home on Tuesday and, officials said, he is being held at the Berks County Jail after being denied bail. <\/p>\n
He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for July 20, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old Reading man has been arrested and charged with rape of a child after, police claim, officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-238504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238504","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=238504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}