{"id":34899,"date":"2015-02-09T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T21:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34899"},"modified":"2015-02-09T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T21:15:53","slug":"shelter-worker-accused-of-sex-act-with-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/02\/shelter-worker-accused-of-sex-act-with-teen\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter Worker Accused <br>Of Sex Act With Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34900\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34900\" title=\"WILLIAMS, BARRETT JERMAINE\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WILLIAMS-BARRETT-JERMAINE-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WILLIAMS-BARRETT-JERMAINE-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WILLIAMS-BARRETT-JERMAINE.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BARRETT JERMAINE WILLIAMS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fort Myers Police Department has arrested Barrett Jermaine Williams of Lehigh Acres for sexual battery involving a minor according to the booking report.<\/p>\n<p>FMPD detectives say that Williams is a staff member of The Source of Light &amp; Hope Development Center&#8217;s Hope House located on 2666 Lime Street in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>The victim her parents met with detectives who told them of the incident of sexual assault involving a staff member while in the custody of the Hope House.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say they recovered evidence to support the claims and Williams was taken into custody Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is facial multiple charges including sexual battery with a victim between 12-18 by a person older than 18; cruelty toward a child and possession of obscene material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This first degree felony case remains active as investigators review evidence,&#8221; said police spokesperson Lieutenant Victor Medico.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is currently being held at the Lee County Jail on $250,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>The Source of Light &amp; Hope Development Center&#8217;s Hope House, the children may be placed there by a judge, a case manager or by other means. It is currently licensed for 11 beds for children between the ages of 12 and 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers Police Department has arrested Barrett Jermaine Williams of Lehigh Acres for sexual battery involving a minor according to the booking report. FMPD detectives say that Williams is a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}