{"id":368881,"date":"2026-08-12T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368881\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:16:10","slug":"fl-father-killed-family-kittens-to-punish-daughter-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/368881\/","title":{"rendered":"FL Father Killed Family Kittens To Punish Daughter: Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Charette Jr., 48, was arrested after deputies responded to a home in the Pine Manor area on Aug. 5 following a report that a man was attempting to drown and strike a 2-month-old kitten named Luna.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told deputies Charette had threatened to abuse and kill the family&#8217;s kittens in front of his teenage daughter when she &#8220;acted up,&#8221; the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Charette Jr., 48, was arrested after deputies responded to a home in the Pine Manor area on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-368881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368881","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=368881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}