{"id":486340,"date":"2026-10-06T01:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486340\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:14:15","slug":"judge-drops-murder-charge-against-california-city-man-in-death-of-12-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486340\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge drops murder charge against California City man in death of 12-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALIFORNIA CITY (KERO) \u2014 A judge has dropped a murder charge against California City man Kenneth Dobbins in connection with the drowning death of 12-year-old Fernando Torres Moreno.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Dobbins&#8217; dogs chased Torres Moreno into Central Park Lake this summer. Police say Dobbins rescued his dogs but left the struggling child in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Torres Moreno died at the hospital the next day.<br \/>Dobbins still faces involuntary manslaughter and animal control charges. He is set to be arraigned on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA CITY (KERO) \u2014 A judge has dropped a murder charge against California City man Kenneth Dobbins in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,5793,9,8,94428,41068],"class_list":["post-486340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-city","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dog-attack","tag-drowning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}