{"id":384593,"date":"2026-08-29T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384593\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:59:21","slug":"police-arrest-st-pete-man-for-sexual-abuse-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384593\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest St. Pete man for sexual abuse of a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victim&#8217;s family reportedly knew the suspect, 26-year-old Michael Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Petersburg man is behind bars after police say he sexually abused a young child.<\/p>\n<p>According to St. Pete police, the victim told her parents about the abuse earlier this month. The suspect was known to the family.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 5, police began an investigation and identified 26-year-old Michael Phillips as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say the incident was reported in Pasco County but took place in St. Petersburg, where Phillips lives.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested Thursday and charged with sexual battery on a child under the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Phillips was denied bond and given a no contact order against the victim and all minors, and ordered to stay away from the victim&#8217;s home and school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim&#8217;s family reportedly knew the suspect, 26-year-old Michael Phillips. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Petersburg man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-384593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384593","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=384593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}