{"id":294118,"date":"2026-06-03T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294118\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:49:12","slug":"45-year-old-man-charged-with-child-abuse-after-hitting-a-kid-with-a-hammer-st-pete-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294118\/","title":{"rendered":"45-year-old man charged with child abuse after hitting a kid with a hammer, St. Pete police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man in St. Petersburg is currently facing charges of aggravated child abuse for allegedly hitting the kid with a hammer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The St. Petersburg Police Department arrested Ferid Bajric, 45, after they say he abused a child using a hammer to hit the minor on top of his head, according to the arrest report reviewed by 10 Tampa Bay News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This incident occurred on Monday, in the area of Beach Drive NE, in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the kid required hospitalization and was treated for his injuries. They also say Bajric and the child know each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to records in the Pinellas County Jail, Bajric posted bond and has since been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in St. Petersburg is currently facing charges of aggravated child abuse for allegedly hitting the kid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[21221,124032,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,23643],"class_list":["post-294118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-aggravated-child-abuse","tag-ferid-bajric","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294118","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=294118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}