{"id":52712,"date":"2022-03-25T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52712"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:47:34","slug":"child-sex-trafficking-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/03\/child-sex-trafficking-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING CONVICTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Lee County jury convicted Jesus Francisco Santana Perez of two counts of Human Trafficking; three counts of Lewd Battery on a Child; one count of Use of a Child in a Sexual Performance; one count of Delivery of Drugs to a Minor; and one count of Delivery of Alcohol to a Minor, after a four-day trial in Lee County Circuit Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Santana-Perez.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52713\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Santana Perez provided children in Lehigh Acres with illegal drugs and alcohol and then sexually exploited them over a six-month period in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the trial, the victims, their family members, and child trauma experts testified to the crimes committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State also presented documentary evidence sourced from social media to corroborate the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office worked tirelessly to investigate this case and assisted the State in obtaining these guilty verdicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perez was remanded into the custody of the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office without bond by Judge Mark Steinbeck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sentencing is scheduled for May 17, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. in Court Room 5-C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special Victims Unit Chief Francine Donnorummo and Assistant State Attorney Lindsay Scott-Garza prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lee County jury convicted Jesus Francisco Santana Perez of two counts of Human Trafficking; three counts of Lewd Battery on a Child; one count of Use of a Child&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52712"}],"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=52712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52714,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52712\/revisions\/52714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}