{"id":377470,"date":"2026-08-21T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377470\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:28:08","slug":"cape-coral-police-arrest-76-year-old-man-for-lewd-and-lascivious-molestation-of-juvenile-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377470\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral police arrest 76-year-old man for lewd and lascivious molestation of juvenile | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The Cape Coral Police Department arrested a 76-year-old man following an investigation into allegations of a sex offense involving a juvenile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheriffleefl.org\/booking\/?id=1030746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clinton Burton<\/a> was taken into custody on Aug. 20, 2026. The Cape Coral Police Department Special Victims Unit investigated after the juvenile reported multiple incidents of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed Burton would exchange sweet treats for sex acts. Following a forensic interview and subsequent investigative efforts, detectives established probable cause for Burton&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Burton was arrested for lewd or lascivious molestation, in violation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;URL=0800-0899\/0800\/Sections\/0800.04.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Statute \u00a7 800.04(5)(b)<\/a>. He was transported to the Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014The Cape Coral Police Department arrested a 76-year-old man following an investigation into allegations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,212,28,356],"class_list":["post-377470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police","tag-florida","tag-lee-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377470","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=377470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}