{"id":53614,"date":"2022-06-13T19:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53614"},"modified":"2022-06-13T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:36:08","slug":"lehigh-acres-child-molester-off-the-street-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/06\/lehigh-acres-child-molester-off-the-street-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres child molester off the street for good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Lehigh Acres man who was active with the Cub Scouts was sentenced to life in prison Friday as part of a major child porn bust in 2019, according to the state attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-6.png 284w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-6-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Matthew Gridley was adjudicated guilty and sentenced to life in prison, immediately after being found guilty, following a four-day trial that ended on Friday. Gridley was found guilty as charged on all counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was sentenced as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Count 1: Sexual Battery, Child Less Than 12 Years of Age \u2013 Life in Prison<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Count 2: Lewd or Lascivious Molestation \u2013 Life in Prison<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Count 3: Providing Obscene Material to Minors \u2013 5 years in prison (the maximum allowed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Counts 4-23: Possession of Child Pornography &#8211; 15 years on each count (the maximum allowed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the sentences are to run concurrently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) initially began an investigation in 2019 after they received information that the defendant\u2019s IP address was advertising\/sharing child pornography files on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their investigation led them to the defendant\u2019s home, where they executed a search warrant. During the execution of the search warrant, nine different electronic devices were found that contained hundreds of files of child pornography, including photographs and videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the execution of the search warrant, they also learned there was a child who had been in the residence with the defendant. FDLE\u2019s investigation found the child had been sexually abused by the defendant. All of the evidence collected led to the defendant\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant State Attorney Natalie Savino and Lee County Circuit Court Chief, Assistant State Attorney Tyler Lovejoy, prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres man who was active with the Cub Scouts was sentenced to life in prison Friday as part of a major child porn bust in 2019, according to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53614"}],"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=53614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53616,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53614\/revisions\/53616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}