{"id":274808,"date":"2026-08-29T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274808\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:02:10","slug":"man-arrested-on-child-abuse-charges-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274808\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on child abuse charges in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA\u00a0COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014\u00a0Police have arrested a man for the alleged child abuse of two young children, according to a statement by Scranton City Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jose Leon, 30, was arrested Monday after police received child abuse allegations involving two young children in the 500 block of Cherry Street in South Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the investigation, Leon was arrested and charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, both felonies, and two counts of simple assault, both misdemeanors, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Man allegedly touches 4 girls at swimming hole;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\/news\/crime-courts\/man-allegedly-touches-4-girls-at-swimming-hole\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Man allegedly touches 4 girls at swimming hole\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police also explained that a photograph of Leon was not available at the time of booking, as per their statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA\u00a0COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014\u00a0Police have arrested a man for the alleged child abuse of two young children, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[308,115454,201,29037,115457,178,115456,180,179,115455],"class_list":["post-274808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-inc","tag-jose-leon","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-leon","tag-nexstar-media","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-city-police","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-wbre-wyou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274808","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=274808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}