{"id":370956,"date":"2026-08-14T02:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370956\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T02:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:38:20","slug":"tampa-man-charged-with-exposing-himself-to-children-on-the-way-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370956\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man charged with exposing himself to children on the way to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Tampa man has been arrested after witnesses say he exposed himself to children walking to school, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office says Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies responded to a call at about 6:45 a.m. Wednesday morning near 15th Street and College Park Drive in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Two juveniles riding scooters to school were approached by Quaze Moore, 32, the sheriff\u2019s office said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Moore chased them to a nearby parking lot, \u201cexposed himself, performed explicit acts, then grabbed one of the juveniles.\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other witnesses stepped in and stopped the attack, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies arrested Moore and charged him with resisting an officer without violence, two counts of lewd or lascivious exhibition, and lewd or lascivious molestation (defendant over than 18, victim 12-15).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThese witnesses didn\u2019t hesitate; they stepped up and stopped a predator in the act,\u201d said Sheriff Chad Chronister. \u201cLet me be clear: we will not tolerate adults who prey on children in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Tampa man has been arrested after witnesses say he exposed himself to children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150008,4919,47301,531,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-370956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-expossure","tag-kids","tag-moore","tag-school","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370956","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=370956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}