{"id":70644,"date":"2025-12-04T05:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70644\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:41:10","slug":"st-petersburg-man-arrested-for-allegedly-sexually-abusing-young-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70644\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg man arrested for allegedly sexually abusing young child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A 65-year-old man has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a young child, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lawrence Airdo was taken into custody after a child told her parents that she had been sexually abused by a man known to the family, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/12\/02\/day-care-owner-accused-molestation-fails-show-court-arrest-ordered\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/12\/02\/day-care-owner-accused-molestation-fails-show-court-arrest-ordered\/\">Day care owner accused of molestation fails to show in court; arrest ordered<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Airdo faces charges of sexual battery on a child under 12 and lewd and lascivious molestation by an adult on a child under 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A 65-year-old man has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,40766,204,203,40767,199,201,200,18405,40768],"class_list":["post-70644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-arrest","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-pete-sexual-abuse","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police","tag-st-petersburg-sexual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70644","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=70644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}