{"id":277636,"date":"2026-05-20T04:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277636\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:31:22","slug":"former-florida-church-leader-accused-plotting-sex-with-teen-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277636\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida church leader accused plotting sex with teen boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">A former president of an Orlando-based Christian church is accused of soliciting a teen boy for sex through social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a four-month investigation \u2013 in which an Orange County detective was working undercover as a 14-year-old boy living in Orlando \u2013 Alan Chambers, 54, was arrested at a traffic stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chambers is the former president of Exodus International, a ministry that took part in counseling gays to change their sexual orientation, FOX News reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0May 19, 2026 11:41pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former president of an Orlando-based Christian church is accused of soliciting a teen boy for sex through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-277636","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\/277636","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=277636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}