{"id":45395,"date":"2019-11-21T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45395"},"modified":"2019-11-21T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:40:50","slug":"guilty-of-a-sex-crime-against-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/11\/guilty-of-a-sex-crime-against-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty of a Sex Crime Against a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today David Anthony Flowers, 39, was found guilty as charged of one count of Engaging in an Act Which Constitutes Sexual Battery Upon or With a Child 12 Years of Age or Older but Younger than 18 Years of Age by a Person in a Familial or Custodial Authority. The jury returned the verdict this afternoon following a three-day trial in Lee County. Flowers<br> faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on December 23rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/flowers.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/flowers-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption> David Anthony Flowers  Booking Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested the defendant in December 2018 after investigating information they had received involving him sexually battering a child in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today David Anthony Flowers, 39, was found guilty as charged of one count of Engaging in an Act Which Constitutes Sexual Battery Upon or With a Child 12 Years of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45395"}],"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=45395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}