Montgomery County restaurateur charged with sexually assaulting child
Abraham Maman, 28, of Lansdale, the owner of the East Norriton gastropub, Roots, repeatedly assaulted the boy, beginning in May, authorities said.
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The owner of a Montgomery County gastropub sexually assaulted a boy for months in attacks that took place in the restaurant’s office, authorities said.
Abraham Maman, 28, the inspiration behind the East Norriton restaurant Roots, was charged with statutory sexual assault, false imprisonment, and related crimes. According to court documents, the sexual abuse took place at the restaurant on West Germantown Pike.
Beginning last May, Maman, of Lansdale, brought the boy, whose age authorities did not disclose, into the restaurant’s office and groped him, according to an affidavit of probable cause for his Jan. 10 arrest. The boy told him to stop, investigators said, but he continued, at one point offering the boy $100 if he would allow him to perform a sex act. Authorities did not say how the two were acquainted or how the victim came to be at the restaurant.
The boy’s parents reported the assaults to East Norriton police on Dec. 10, according to the affidavit.
Maman was initially held in the Montgomery County prison on $500,000 bail. At a preliminary hearing Tuesday, bail was reduced to $250,000, and he was later released.
His attorney, Timothy Woodward, did not return a call seeking comment.