{"id":81471,"date":"2026-01-08T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:03:08","slug":"reading-man-accused-of-sexually-abusing-2-young-girls-multiple-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81471\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading man accused of sexually abusing 2 young girls multiple times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">READING &#8211; A Reading man is facing charges after he was accused of sexually abusing two young girls on multiple occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Martin Acevedo, 53, was arrested on Wednesday after the Department of Human Services reported that two girls, 11 and 8, claimed he sexually abused them.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators learned that Acevedo allegedly abused the 11-year-old on multiple occasions at two different Reading-area residences starting when the victim was 6.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Acevedo, prosecutors claim, is accused of threatening to harm the victim&#8217;s mother if she reported the abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/martin-acevedo-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Martin Acevedo, 53, is accused of sexually assaulting two young girls several times at residences in Reading, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The investigation also revealed that Acevedo also allegedly sexually abused an 8-year-old girl multiple times at a Reading property starting when she was 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Through interviews with family members of the victims living in New York City, investigators discovered that several juveniles witnessed the heinous abuse.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Acevedo has been charged with multiple crimes, including rape of a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, and intimidation of a witness or victim.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Acevedo was arraigned on Thursday and taken to the Berks County Jail after failing to pay $200,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/berks-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berks County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING &#8211; A Reading man is facing charges after he was accused of sexually abusing two young girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,592,139,539,128,130,129,593],"class_list":["post-81471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81471","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=81471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}