{"id":244069,"date":"2026-07-15T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244069\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:53:08","slug":"pennsylvania-man-indicted-in-federal-court-in-gainesville-for-multiple-child-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244069\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man indicted in federal court in Gainesville for multiple child sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A man from Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Joshua Barber, 39, has been charged with exploiting a minor for purpose of producing visual depictions, attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, cyberstalking, multiple counts of threatening communications, and repeated harassing communication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Barber originally appeared in federal court in Gainesville for his arraignment and his jury trial will take place on August 4 at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He faces a minimum of 15 years in prison, and a maximum of life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This case is a part of Project Safe Childhood. This is a nationwide initiative under the Department of Justice to fight against child sexual exploitation in abuse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A man from Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104509,104508,28,30,29,16048],"class_list":["post-244069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-child-sex-crime","tag-gainesville-court","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sexual-exploitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244069","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=244069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}