{"id":303436,"date":"2026-10-10T00:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303436\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:11:06","slug":"bethlehem-man-convicted-in-near-decade-long-sex-abuse-of-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303436\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem man convicted in near decade-long sex abuse of teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7KTWG2L4NZG6JI53SSEPZNVVGU\">A jury has convicted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/bethlehem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/bethlehem\">Bethlehem<\/a> man of sexually abusing of a teen girl repeatedly for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5TGBMQBW2VF4JKA6J742JG6BD4\">Jose Andres Torres, 32, was found guilty of felony counts of of statutory sexual assault; involuntary deviate sexual intercourse; indecent assault; child endangerment; and corruption of minors. Court records show a felony involuntary deviate sexual intercourse charge was withdrawn by prosecutors prior to trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PWVYJFZRUFCPHKLSZ3DVPZKZLI\">Torres\u2019 conviction came down Tuesday after a two-day jury trial before Northampton County Court Judge Brian J. Panella. Torres\u2019 bail was revoked after the verdict and he was sent to Northampton County Prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"A5GEC6B2RFDFJHUKWRSISX3TG4\">Torres\u2019 sentencing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Feb. 24 before Panella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WMK3PVO6SBFCTKYDLFYATDLFW4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/stephen%20baratta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/stephen%20baratta\/\">Northampton County District Attorney Stephen Baratta <\/a>announced the verdict Thursday afternoon. Wyomissing, Berks County attorney David D. Ritter, representing Torres, declined comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QVU5KZP5WNC6TE4RWQTOOYNON4\">Torres was charged in September 2025 in the sexual abuse of the girl. The victim reported the abuse \u2014 which occurred multiple times between 2016 and 2025 \u2014 to a staff member and school resource officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QN7VHUKQ6ZFL3LCQVPYZDJE764\">This case was investigated by Bethlehem Police Detective Martin Soltan and was prosecuted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Northampton%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Northampton%20County\">Northampton County<\/a> Senior Deputy District Attorney Christine Murphy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jury has convicted a Bethlehem man of sexually abusing of a teen girl repeatedly for nearly a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23159,11281,153,155,154,23160,4329,23161,23162,4036,23163,4394,16888,4044,23164,23165,787],"class_list":["post-303436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-absence","tag-bed","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-colour","tag-day","tag-easy-retouch","tag-empty","tag-horizontal","tag-indoors","tag-jail","tag-nobody","tag-photography","tag-prison-bars","tag-prison-cell","tag-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303436","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=303436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}