{"id":217140,"date":"2026-04-03T06:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:40:17","slug":"florida-pastor-accused-of-having-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217140\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida pastor accused of having child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/robert-glossenger-mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">ALVA, Fla. &#8211; Law enforcement officials in Southwest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a> are seeking information from potential victims after they say a pastor was found with child pornography.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office Internet Crimes Against Children said they received a cybertip about child pornography coming from a home in Lee County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Through analytical research, detectives said they identified the suspect as an Alva resident and executed a search warrant on a home on Apple Blossom Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to detectives, the suspect, Pastor Robert Glossenger, said he would receive and send child pornography while chatting with strangers online.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Glossenger was arrested and charged with three counts of possession of child pornography and three counts of transmission of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;This is a disturbing case where a pastor, a person of power and trust, was searching and exchanging child porn with others online. I am disgusted and hope anyone who may have fallen victim to this man will come forward,&#8221; said Sheriff Carmine Marceno.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">This case is active and anyone with information about Glossenger is asked to contact the LCSO Innocent Images Unit or SWFL CrimeStoppers at 1-800-780-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office ALVA, Fla. &#8211; Law enforcement officials in Southwest Florida are seeking information&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-217140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217140","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=217140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}