{"id":282784,"date":"2026-05-24T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282784\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:53:08","slug":"hillsborough-deputies-41-year-old-man-met-with-15-year-old-several-times-for-sexual-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282784\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough deputies: 41-year-old man met with 15-year-old several times for sexual acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 41-year-old man is facing charges after it was discovered he frequently met with a 15-year-old for sexual acts, the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say they began investigating Karl Slazinski on Thursday, May 7, after discovering he&#8217;d been communicating with the teenager since May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>HCSO says Slazinski and the 15-year-old met up several times over the course of three years and performed sexual acts on each other.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators arrested Slazinski on Saturday, May 23 after obtaining an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Slazinski is charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis adult exploited and manipulated a child for years, using communication and calculated grooming to commit these horrific crimes,\u201d Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement. \u201cProtecting children remains one of our highest priorities, and our detectives worked tirelessly to build this case and ensure this individual is held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 41-year-old man is facing charges after it was discovered he frequently met with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-282784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282784","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=282784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}