{"id":434892,"date":"2026-10-22T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434892\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:46:10","slug":"lee-county-group-home-worker-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434892\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County group home worker accused of sexually assaulting resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792680370_332_60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A staff member at a group home for individuals with intellectual disabilities was arrested after he was accused of sexually assaulting a resident.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to court documents, back in February officers with the Fort Myers Police Department investigated after receiving a report from a staff member that Christopher Bleier, 58, had touched a resident inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The victim said that he sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Bleier had worked in the home for one year. He was arrested by the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Oct. 12 and faces charges of lewd and lascivious behavior toward an elderly or disabled person.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A staff member at a group home for individuals with intellectual disabilities was arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-434892","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\/434892","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=434892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}