BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A Berks County man is in custody and is facing charges in connection with the reported sexual abuse of a 7-year-old boy, according to the district attorney’s office.<\/p>\n
Matthew Anoka, 31, was arrested shortly after a July 7 arrest warrant was issued, according to a Wednesday news release.<\/p>\n
In May 2026, Berks County District Attorney\u2019s Detectives received several referrals from the Department of Human Services claiming a 7-year-old was the victim of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
After a forensic interview with the child in question, the victim said that Matthew Anoka, 31, of Reading, sexually abused him and showed him explicit videos and pictures.<\/p>\n
Further investigation showed the abuse reportedly happened in April 2026 at a home on the 100 block of Commonwealth Boulevard in Kenhorst Borough.<\/p>\n
An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday, and Anoka was later taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A Berks County man is in custody and is facing charges in connection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-243227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","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\/243227","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=243227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}