Crime & Safety

Report: City Man Pleas Down Child Rape Charges

Jose Vazquez admits to statutory sexual assault.

A Bethlehem man who had been accused of beginning a long series of rapes of a girl starting when she was 8 years old, pleaded guilty today to a lesser charge, according to a Morning Call report.

The trial of Jose M. Vazquez in January resulted in a mistrial. Today, he pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault, the story says.


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