{"id":383751,"date":"2026-08-28T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383751\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:54:08","slug":"man-charged-with-child-sexual-abuse-in-st-petersburg-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383751\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with child sexual abuse in St. Petersburg investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A 26-year-old man faces charges after a young child reported being sexually abused, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> St. Petersburg police investigation   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers say a young child told her parents about the abuse, which prompted officers to open an investigation into the allegations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities said the initial report came from Pasco County, but investigators determined the alleged abuse took place in St. Petersburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police arrested and charged the 26-year-old man with sexually abusing a child under 12 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Details surrounding local arrest <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials have not yet confirmed the specific timeline of the incidents or where in St. Petersburg the abuse occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the St. Petersburg Police Department, who detailed the arrest and investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A 26-year-old man faces charges after a young child reported being sexually abused, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-383751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383751","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=383751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}