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Abuse reports

State police at the Fern Ridge barracks reported on Child Line and other abuse reports:

• An indecent assault report was received through a Child Line referral.

Police said the incident happened at 9 a.m. March 22 at a property on Upper Ridge Road in Chestnuthill Township, where the victim, a 17-year-old girl from Effort, was assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend.

• Police are investigating a report of a child abuse incident they received from the Monroe County Office of Children and Youth Services.

Police said they were told a 13-year-old girl from Albrightsville was abused at 3:23 a.m. March 10 at a location on Parkside Avenue in Tobyhanna Township.

• Noah Acevedo, 23, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was committed to the Monroe County Correctional Facility, Snydersville, following his arrest of assault charges.

Police said the incident happened at approximately 12:35 a.m. March 19 at 110 Birch Lane, Chestnuthill Township when Acevedo and a female from Kunkletown engaged in a physical domestic altercation. Police said Acevedo was taken into custody and arraigned.

• Police were summoned to an incident at 12:49 a.m. March 24 at Patten Circle, Penn Forest Township, but police said their investigation resulted in the allegation being unfounded.

Police said the report was that a 17-year-old girl from Albrightsville was locked in a basement by a 17-year-old boy for an unknown amount of time.

• Police were called to an incident along Cress Drive in Chestnuthill Township at 4:04 p.m. March 19 and said the victim of a report of a rape incident they received did not want the matter pursued.

Police said they were called there by a complainant who was concerned about drug use of a friend. While speaking to the complainant, police said, it was learned another friend had been a victim of a rape approximately eight months ago.

Police said contact was made with the victim of the rape, who related the rape took place but she did not want to pursue the matter.

• Police are investigating a report of endangering the welfare of children received through the ChildLine program from the Monroe County Office of Children and Youth Services.

Police said they were summoned at 10:45 a.m. March 29 to a property on Woodcrest Avenue, Chestnuthill Township, and subsequently interviewed six children between the ages of 5-11 about a number of allegations, including: the children have excessive chores to complete before going to sleep; if a child misbehaves his or her dinner is taken away from him or her; and the children have to wash their own clothing or go without clean clothes.

Police said the children told them none of the allegations were true.

• Police are investigating a statutory rape/sexual assault case that was reported at 9:05 p.m. April 8.

Police said they were summoned to a residence on Sky Hawk Trail, Jackson Township, where they were told the father of a 13-year-old girl from Henryville has been sexually assaulting her since she was 4 years old.

• Police said a report of child abuse that they received at 4:15 p.m. April 3 was determined to be unfounded.

Police said they acted on a Children & Youth report that informed them a juvenile child related that last summer his father would hold him up by the throat against a wall, making it hard for them to breathe.

Police said they interviewed the child and his father at a home on Countryside Drive, Chestnuthill Township, and found the allegations to be not true.