MIDDLETOWN – A Middletown man was arrested by members of the Orange County Child Abuse Unit on charges of rape and endangering the welfare of a child.
Yakeim Hollis, 26, was arrested following an investigation of a report to the state Child Abuse Hotline on February. He was sent to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or bond.
The investigation, conducted in conjunction with the Orange County Social Services Department’s Child Protective Services, alleged that Hollis had sex with a child under the age of 17 on more than one occasion in 2014.
Hollis knew the victim.
