{"id":35498,"date":"2025-11-06T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:24:06","slug":"82-year-old-man-arrested-for-lewd-acts-accused-of-binding-teen-in-disturbing-videos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35498\/","title":{"rendered":"82-year-old man arrested for lewd acts, accused of binding teen in disturbing videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 An 82-year-old man is accused of lewd and lascivious conduct with a teenage boy. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (MCSO), on October 27, one of its deputies responded to a woman who said that her 15-year-old son was missing and that she last saw him entering his room at about 9 p.m. The criminal complaint says that, feeling concerned for her son, she unlocked his cell phone and found disturbing pictures and videos.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest report says one of the videos showed a teenager hands and feet bound with duct tape and an older man, believed to be the suspect, touching the teen. Another video showed them on the couch watching pornography. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/man-and-woman-accused-of-committing-dine-and-dash-skip-out-on-over-140-bill-lilos-streetfood-and-bar-florida-november-5-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PBSO searches for duo who dined and dashed on $140 bill at Lilo&#8217;s Streetfood and bar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following day, deputies made contact with a teenager who identified the suspect as Earl Louis Hamm. According to the report, a deputy asked the teen if anything had happened while he was at Hamm\u2019s house. The teen responded that Hamm had allegedly touched him on the leg, but nothing further occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest report says deputies uncovered more lewd videos of Hamm with juveniles dated September through October. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators made contact with Hamm outside of his home, where he was placed under arrest and taken to the Martin County Jail, the arrest report says. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to being booked on felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct, he faces counts of showing obscene material to a minor. He remains in jail on $800,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day&#8217;s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBS12NewsWPEC\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can&#8217;t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 An 82-year-old man is accused of lewd and lascivious conduct with a teenage boy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-35498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35498","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=35498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}