{"id":208321,"date":"2026-03-27T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208321\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:22:07","slug":"jacksonville-woman-faces-sentencing-in-hammer-killing-of-man-she-says-groomed-her-starting-at-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208321\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville woman faces sentencing in hammer killing of man she says groomed her starting at 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A Jacksonville woman who pleaded guilty in the gruesome murder of a 41-year-old man she claimed groomed her from childhood is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.\u00a0Waduta Woodley&#8217;s body was discovered by police in the breezeway of an apartment complex on Jacksonville\u2019s Westside in July 2025 with a white piece of paper on his chest that read, \u201cPEDO Touches Children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS A Jacksonville woman who pleaded guilty in the gruesome murder of a 41-year-old man she claimed groomed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[265,116,118,117,5436,115,278],"class_list":["post-208321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-crime","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-morning-show","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}