Port Chester Man, 29, Accused of Raping Child

A 29-year-old Port Chester man was charged with first-degree rape after an investigation of sexual abuse of a child that is believed to have taken place over a five-year period in Port Chester, according to Port Chester Police.

Lt. James Ladeairous said Ever Maldonado, 29, of 33 Oak St., Port Chester, was arrested after an investigation by Det. James Kumano of sexual abuse allegations made by a girl, now 13, living in Connecticut. Police said that girl and her mother lived with Maldonado until two years ago.

Ladeairous said the investigation in Port Chester began with information from police in Bridgeport, CT. The victim, Ladeairous said, revealed the abuse allegations to a clergyman and as a result the matter was then brought to local police.

The girl came to the United States from El Salvador at age 6, living in Port Chester. Ladeairous said Maldonado is accused of inapropriately touching the girl when she was 6 and then raping her beginning at age 7 and until the girl and her mother moved two years ago.

Kumano, prosecutors and child abuse investigators met with the girl Thursday and Maldonado was later called to Port Chester Police Headquarters for questioning. He was arrested after questioning.

Maldonado was arraigned in Port Chester Village Court and ordered held in the Westchester County Jail in Valhalla without bail pending a hearing on April 11.