A 10-year-old girl was raped in East Harlem (Manhattan) by a man she met on a social media application, the New York police reported yesterday.
After first communicating through an app, they made an appointment and the young victim met her attacker at 3rd Ave. and E. 122nd St. around 9 p.m. on January 6, according to NYPD.
The adult took the girl to an apartment and raped her. The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment. The attacker fled and is being searched, reported Daily News.
The social network they used to communicate has not been specified nor is it clear how the minor was alone on the street late at night. Police have released surveillance images of the suspect, captured inside a grocery store, and are asking the public for help in identifying and locating him.
Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In a similar case, in December a former worker at a state residential facility for teenage girls on Long Island (NY) admitted to raping one of them several times after giving her marijuana edibles.
NYPD Officer Christopher Terranova has also been charged with child abuse and possession of child pornography, and also faces federal charges that include allegations that he met some of his victims while on the job.
At the end of November, a Hispanic man was sentenced in Westchester (NY) to between 34 years and life in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting two children, just 5 and 6 years old, and sending explicit photographs to a teenager.
In October a father and his son, both teachers at New Jerseywere arrested and charged on suspicion of viewing, downloading and possessing child pornography. Also that month, a man was arrested on suspicion of having kidnapped an 11-year-old girl in New Jersey and taken her to Delaware, after meeting on the Roblox platform.
At the end of September José Sáez Jr., pastor of a Christian church in Long Island (NY), was arrested on suspicion of producing child pornography, announced the FBI.
Joshua Schulte, convicted in July 2022 for carrying out the most prolific leak in CIA history, was charged in September by the FBI in New York with transporting and possessing thousands of images and videos showing rape and sexual abuse of children
Kevin Tomafsky, a former aide to Republican Chris Christie when he was governor of New Jersey (2010-2018), was arrested on charges that he paid to engage in a sexual act with a six-year-old girl and possessed thousands of items of child pornography in the house where he lived with his mother.
In July, Richard Leaf, a 75-year-old former teacher and well-known Westchester County (NY) high school sportscaster, admitted to receiving child pornography. In June, Steven Marksberry, an NYPD officer assigned to the Bronx, was arrested at his Long Island home for alleged possession of child pornography.
In April, Damon Rallis, former vice president of the Southold Town (Long Island) Democratic Committee and former leader of that town’s Boy Scout troop, pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography.
He National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has warned since 2020 about an increase in cases of child pornography by the increased time of adults and children online. If you are a victim or suspect that someone is being abused, especially if it is a minor or elderly:
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2024-01-18 16:17:57
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