{"id":156048,"date":"2026-04-03T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:08:12","slug":"lehigh-county-couple-accused-of-starving-sons-forcing-them-to-stand-naked-in-the-freezing-cold-due-in-court-thursday-western-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156048\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County couple accused of starving sons, forcing them to stand naked in the freezing cold due in court Thursday | Western Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L. MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County couple accused of starving and abusing his twin teen sons is expected in court Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Dechant and his wife Tracey are accused of starving their 15-year-old sons and forcing them to stand naked in the freezing cold outside their Lower Macungie Township home.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in January of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s court appearance for Joshua\u00a0Dechant is a Bail Modification hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L. MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County couple accused of starving and abusing his twin teen sons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,28],"class_list":["post-156048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156048","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=156048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}