{"id":341361,"date":"2026-07-15T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341361\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:00:30","slug":"charlotte-county-woman-faces-child-cruelty-battery-charges-after-court-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341361\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte County woman faces child cruelty, battery charges after court hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A Charlotte County woman charged with aggravated battery and cruelty toward a child appeared before a judge Tuesday for a criminal status hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gwendolyn Joan Girard appeared July 14 before Judge Lisa S. Porter, according to a Charlotte County court record. The order was entered in Punta Gorda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/08\/27\/charlotte-county-judge-revokes-bond-woman-accused-stabbing-12-year-old-girl-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/08\/27\/charlotte-county-judge-revokes-bond-woman-accused-stabbing-12-year-old-girl-may\/\">Charlotte County woman accused of stabbing 12-year-old girl awaiting competency hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Girard faces two charges: aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability and cruelty toward a child\/aggravated battery on a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A next court appearance is listed as Sept. 4 at 8:30 a.m., according to the court form. The exact hearing type was not clear from the scanned document and should be confirmed through the Charlotte County Clerk of Court.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Charlotte County woman charged with aggravated battery and cruelty toward a child appeared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[140216,209,211,210,140215,140218,140214,140217],"class_list":["post-341361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-aggravated-battery-child-florida","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county-court","tag-child-cruelty-charges-florida","tag-gwendolyn-joan-girard","tag-punta-gorda-criminal-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341361","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=341361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}