{"id":372334,"date":"2026-10-13T21:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372334\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:34:52","slug":"manhattan-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-child-solicitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372334\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man pleads not guilty to child solicitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan man pleaded not guilty to 25 charges of child solicitation and promoting obscenity to minors on Tuesday in Riley County District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Owen Kelley, 25, entered not guilty pleas to 13 counts of electronic solicitation of someone the offender believed to be a child less than 14 years old and 12 counts of promoting obscenity to minors.<\/p>\n<p>His case goes to trial on Jan. 4, 2027.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/manhattan-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-child-solicitation\/article_f4289c82-8598-44bd-9cb3-312cdcc75606.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man pleaded not guilty to 25 charges of child solicitation and promoting obscenity to minors on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-372334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}