Manhattan detectives are investigating a case by which a person repeatedly sexually abused an 8-year-old woman and took photos of the act at a Harlem afterschool program and may have attacked different youngsters.
In response to court docket information, Miles McNeal was arraigned on Feb. 2 earlier than Manhattan legal court docket Decide Marva Claudette Brown and ordered held on $75,000 money bail or $200,000 bond.
Police mentioned Miles McNeal, 25, of Yonkers was taken into custody on Feb. 1 by members of the Manhattan Little one Abuse Squad. He was charged with intercourse abuse, use of a kid in a sexual efficiency, selling an obscene sexual efficiency by a toddler, course of sexual conduct towards a toddler, possessing an obscene sexual efficiency by a toddler, and appearing in a fashion injurious to a toddler.
In response to the legal grievance supplied by the Manhattan District Legal professional’s workplace, McNeal allegedly molested and sexually assaulted the woman on a number of events between Sept. 8, 2022 and Aug. 18, 2023 on the program primarily based out of a West 112th Road location, throughout the confines of the twenty eighth Precinct.
The grievance additional alleges that McNeal took quite a few pictures of the woman’s non-public components, together with whereas he molested her. On different events, he allegedly confirmed the teenager pictures of different youngsters’s bare our bodies.
Miles McNeal was arrested for a sexual assault of an 8-year-old feminine that occurred throughout an afterschool program within the confines of the @nypd28pct. Any mother and father whose youngsters had any sort of contact with him can contact the NYPD Intercourse Crimes Hotline at 1-212-267-RAPE (7273). pic.twitter.com/EmG3PDJ2Ge
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) February 3, 2024
Police imagine McNeal could have sexually abused and recorded different kids. Members of the Little one Abuse Squad, in addition to the Manhattan District Legal professional’s workplace, are urging mother and father of kids who could have interacted with McNeal to come back ahead and help police within the investigation.
The NYPD famous that educated professionals can be found to talk with the youngsters and their households in a child-friendly setting.
Any father or mother who is aware of their baby had any sort of contact with McNeal is urged to name the NYPD Intercourse Crimes Hotline at 212-267-RAPE (7273). Some other potential victims of McNeal can contact the NYPD Sexual Assault Hotline at 646-610-7272 or CrimeStoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). Suggestions may be supplied on-line at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (the platform previously often called Twitter) @NYPDTips.