{"id":253148,"date":"2026-04-30T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:12:08","slug":"marion-county-firefighters-avoid-jail-in-firehouse-hazing-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253148\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion County firefighters avoid jail in firehouse hazing scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">Three former Marion County firefighters &#8212; Seth Day, Edward Kenny, and Tate Trauthwein &#8212; pleaded guilty to charges related to the hazing of another rookie firefighter. All three reached a plea deal with prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Under that plea agreement, all three former firefighters will avoid jail. They were also sentenced to a year of probation, community service, and behavior classes.<\/p>\n<p>Before accepting the deal, the judge asked the 19-year-old Kane Stewart, the victim, he was OK with the agreement. He said he was.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FOX 35 does not normally identify victims, but Kane Stewart talked two FOX 35 about the attack previously and was OK being identified.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0April 30, 2026 6:09pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three former Marion County firefighters &#8212; Seth Day, Edward Kenny, and Tate Trauthwein &#8212; pleaded guilty to charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-253148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253148","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=253148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}