{"id":147283,"date":"2026-03-24T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147283\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:18:06","slug":"scranton-woman-accused-of-videoing-abuse-of-boy-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147283\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton woman accused of videoing abuse of boy, 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 25-year-old Scranton woman sexually abused an 8-year-old boy and filmed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> detectives said.<\/p>\n<p>Zsionte Owens was caught because TikTok, the social site where her account briefly hosted the explicit video, flagged the content and passed it along to law enforcement, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Brian Gallagher in a statement called it a \u201clevel of depravity rarely seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allegations are horrendous and reflect conduct that strikes at the very core of our responsibility to protect children in this community,\u201d Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>The video is 3 minutes and 29 seconds long. It shows Owens performing oral sex on a young boy while dancing.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok captured her IP address, which investigators used, along with the phone number associated with Owens\u2019 account, to link the video back to her.<\/p>\n<p>Owens is due back in court April 7 for a preliminary hearing on charges including rape of a child and production of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>She is held at the Lackawanna County Prison on $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 25-year-old Scranton woman sexually abused an 8-year-old boy and filmed it, Lackawanna County detectives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-147283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}