{"id":49910,"date":"2021-08-03T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49910"},"modified":"2021-08-03T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:38:40","slug":"prison-sentence-for-sexual-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/08\/prison-sentence-for-sexual-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Sentence for Sexual Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Akepe-Gerard-Ntube.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49911\" width=\"194\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Akepe-Gerard-Ntube.png 376w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Akepe-Gerard-Ntube-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Akepe Gerard Ntube, 47, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Sexual Battery, followed by 5 years of Sex Offender Probation. The Lehigh Acres resident is also now a designated Sexual Offender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, Ntube was found guilty following a trial in Lee County. The crime happened in 2020 when Ntube worked as a physical therapist at a chiropractor\u2019s office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He sexually battered a woman getting a massage to heal a work injury. The victim drove straight to the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office and reported the crime. Deputies investigated and arrested the defendant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant State Attorney Michael Curley, of the Special Victims Unit, prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akepe Gerard Ntube, 47, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Sexual Battery, followed by 5 years of Sex Offender Probation. The Lehigh Acres resident is also now a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[551],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910"}],"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=49910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49912,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49910\/revisions\/49912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}