{"id":68597,"date":"2025-12-23T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:39:06","slug":"fmr-bethlehem-police-officer-costas-alestas-sentenced-for-sex-assault-of-14-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68597\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr. Bethlehem police officer Costas Alestas sentenced for sex assault of 14-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766504346_794_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 23, 2025 3:13PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fmr. Bethlehem cop sentenced for sex assault of 14-year-old girl\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BETHLEHEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A former Bethlehem police officer was sentenced Monday after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a middle school student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Costas Alestas will spend 10 to 20 years in state prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Alestas was assigned as a school resource officer at East Hills Middle School <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/bethlehem-pennsylvania-school-resource-officer-sexual-assault-student-east-hills-middle\/14821934\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when police began investigating in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sex assaults of the 14-year-old girl took place on and off school grounds, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">They also found inappropriate videos of an 11-year-old student, taken without her knowledge, on Alestas&#8217; cell phone.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, December 23, 2025 3:13PM BETHLEHEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A former Bethlehem police officer was sentenced Monday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36292,153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-68597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-36292","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68597","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=68597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}