{"id":349394,"date":"2026-07-23T02:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349394\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:18:59","slug":"st-pete-man-arrested-after-his-12-year-old-niece-gets-pregnant-gives-birth-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349394\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man arrested after his 12-year-old niece gets pregnant, gives birth: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A St. Petersburg man has been arrested after his 12-year-old niece gave birth, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"A St. Petersburg man has been arrested after his 12-year-old niece gave birth, officials say. The case started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[11486,50787,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-349394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-pinellas-county-jail","tag-pinellas-park-police-department","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\/349394","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=349394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}