{"id":226515,"date":"2026-04-10T16:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:52:22","slug":"father-charged-with-lewd-conduct-involving-13-year-old-daughter-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226515\/","title":{"rendered":"Father charged with lewd conduct involving 13-year-old daughter &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A 39-year-old man was arrested Thursday and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct involving a child under 16.<\/p>\n<p>John Jairo Mendez was taken into custody on April 9 following an investigation into an incident involving his 13-year-old biological daughter. According to authorities, the conduct occurred on April 6 in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Police report that Mendez sent a text message to the victim requesting a photograph. After she provided a fully clothed image, Mendez allegedly asked her to send the \u201csexiest photograph\u201d of herself and instructed her not to tell her younger sister.<\/p>\n<p>Following his arrest, Mendez reportedly confessed to the allegation. He was transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Detention Center and is being held on $7,500 bond and has been ordered to stay away from the victim. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A 39-year-old man was arrested Thursday and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-226515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226515","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=226515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}