{"id":346164,"date":"2026-07-20T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346164\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:25:12","slug":"tampa-woman-charged-in-death-of-3-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346164\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa woman charged in death of 3-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Tampa woman has been arrested and charged in the April death of a 3-year-old girl, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation began on April 25 when the girl died after being taken to Brandon Regional Hospital with several injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives say the child\u2019s injuries occurred while she was in the care of 29-year-old Grace Wingate of Tampa. The medical examiner later ruled her death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After getting an arrest warrant on July 16, Wingate was taken into custody and charged with: <\/p>\n<p>First-degree murder while engaged in aggravated child abuseChild neglect with great bodily harmAggravated child abuse<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wingate is being held without bond in the Hillsborough County Jail, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is continuing, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Tampa woman has been arrested and charged in the April death of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3049,8611,2353,1933,135,137,136,48978],"class_list":["post-346164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abuse","tag-brandon","tag-child","tag-murder","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wingate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346164","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=346164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}