{"id":75474,"date":"2025-12-08T12:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75474\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:59:06","slug":"man-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-child-under-12-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75474\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged With Sexual Abuse Of Child Under 12: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A 65-year-old St. Petersburg man was accused of sexually abusing a child under 12 years old, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives began their investigation on Nov. 30, after a young girl told her parents that she was sexually abused by a man who knows their family, St. Petersburg police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined the suspect was Lawrence Airdo of St. Petersburg, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Airdo was arrested and charged with sexual battery on a child under the age of 12 and lewd and lascivious molestation by an adult on a child under the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A 65-year-old St. Petersburg man was accused of sexually abusing a child under 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-75474","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\/75474","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=75474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}