{"id":57290,"date":"2023-02-21T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57290"},"modified":"2023-02-21T11:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:10:52","slug":"did-you-know-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/02\/did-you-know-153\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that a youth pastor and foster parent were both recently arrested for human trafficking?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5361003.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57291\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hillsborough County deputies first arrested 36-year-old Moises Escoto of Temple Terrace. Escoto, is a youth pastor at Iglesia de Cristo Misonera Mahanaim Church. After deputies conducted further investigation into Escoto\u2019s sexual victimization of a child through an app called Sniffes, they also discovered that another man living in Florida, was also using the same app to solicit sex from a child in exchange for money. Hillsborough County deputies identified that man as Joel Lutz, 38, who resides in Pasco County, and as a registered foster parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Escoto and Lutz are facing charges of use of a computer services or devices to solicit certain illegal acts, human trafficking for commercial sexual activity, travelling to meet a minor after using computer services or devices for lewd or lascivious exhibition defendant over 18, lewd or lascivious batter, and other criminal charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This journalist has written articles recently, as well in the past identifying the State of Florida ranked as third-worst in the United States in terms of human and sex trafficking according to Human Trafficking Institute, and other organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that a youth pastor and foster parent were both recently arrested for human trafficking? Hillsborough County deputies first arrested 36-year-old Moises Escoto of Temple&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57290"}],"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=57290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57293,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57290\/revisions\/57293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}