{"id":38070,"date":"2025-11-18T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38070\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:41:07","slug":"tennessee-man-sentenced-for-coercing-pittsburgh-girl-to-engage-in-sexual-activity-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38070\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee man sentenced for coercing Pittsburgh girl to engage in sexual activity \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 A Tennessee man will spend more than a decade imprisoned for coercing a Pittsburgh child to engage in sexual activity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Department of Justice announced a 12-year sentence for Terron Slatton, 26, of South Pittsburg, Tenn., on Tuesday. His prison sentence will be followed by 10 years of supervised release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Slatton pleaded guilty to coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity back in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The court states that in December 2022, Slatton contacted a 10-year-old Pittsburgh girl, enticing her to engage in sexual activity. During their online conversations, the court says Slatton discussed sex with the child and solicited sexually explicit images from her. He also suggested meeting in person to engage in sexual activity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Tennessee man will spend more than a decade imprisoned for coercing a Pittsburgh child to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15647,4737,10094,15648,3646,4738,4029,2586,4591,2978,4741,449,786,31,784,4031,15649,15650,15651,4746,744,4747,794,15652,4748,4586,15653,4011,2389,15654,740,742,3430,4751,393,7026,4752,15655,15656,73,75,74,15657,787,4753,5376,4756,4757,14468,1112,4758,15658,15659],"class_list":["post-38070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-agreement","tag-attorney","tag-auction","tag-auctioneer","tag-authority","tag-background","tag-black","tag-block","tag-brown","tag-chairman","tag-concept","tag-court","tag-courtroom","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-dark","tag-decision","tag-divorce","tag-equality","tag-gavel","tag-government","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-hammer","tag-innocence","tag-judge","tag-judgment","tag-judicial","tag-judiciary","tag-juridical","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-legislation","tag-light","tag-litigation","tag-mallet","tag-object","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-prosecution","tag-punishment","tag-rights","tag-sale","tag-symbol","tag-system","tag-table","tag-trial","tag-verdict","tag-wood","tag-wooden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38070","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=38070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}