{"id":84928,"date":"2026-06-26T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/man-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-five-year-old-girl-in-homeless-shelter\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:19:00","slug":"man-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-five-year-old-girl-in-homeless-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/man-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-five-year-old-girl-in-homeless-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with sexual assault of five-year old girl in homeless shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man charged with sexual assault of five-year old girl in homeless shelter<\/p>\n<p>A 51-year-old man from Msida appeared in court charged with the corruption and sexual assault&nbsp;of a five-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Schembri, an gaming&nbsp;employee, was arraigned on Friday after the mother of the five-year-old filed a police report.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is currently homeless and residing at the YMCA  shelter in Msida, told police that she had discovered a video on her  mobile phone allegedly showing Schembri touching her daughter&#8217;s  genitals.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the girl&#8217;s sibling was playing with their  mother&#8217;s mobile phone at the time of the assault when they accidentally  recorded the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Schembri pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>No request for bail was made, and he was remanded in custody.Legal aid lawyer Victor Bugeja appeared for the accused.AG lawyer Mireya Borg and Inspector Ryan Vella prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-06-26\/local-news\/Man-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-five-year-old-girl-in-homeless-shelter-6736290903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man charged with sexual assault of five-year old girl in homeless shelter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man charged with sexual assault of five-year old girl in homeless shelter A 51-year-old man from Msida appeared in court charged with the corruption and sexual assault&nbsp;of a five-year-old girl. Ruben Schembri, an gaming&nbsp;employee, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-84928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}