Detectives say the 12-year-old was unaware that she was pregnant but disclosed that she was the victim of sexual battery and molestation incidents by her uncle.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Petersburg man has been arrested after his 12-year-old niece gave birth, officials say.<\/p>\n
The case started at around 10:30 p.m. on July 16, when the Pinellas Park Police Department responded to Helen Howarth Park about a child that had been born.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police say the newborn child and the mother, a 12-year-old girl, were both taken to a hospital for treatment and are healthy.<\/p>\n
Detectives say the 12-year-old was unaware that she was pregnant but disclosed that she was the victim of multiple sexual battery and molestation incidents by her uncle in the past year at a home in Pinellas Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The uncle, Delfin Back, 61, was taken into custody and booked into the Pinellas County Jail for capital sexual battery, according to the police department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives say the 12-year-old was unaware that she was pregnant but disclosed that she was the victim of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-349384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349384","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=349384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}