{"id":60549,"date":"2025-02-22T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60549"},"modified":"2025-02-22T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:01:46","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-arrested-for-missing-child-sexual-abuse-court-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/02\/lehigh-acres-man-arrested-for-missing-child-sexual-abuse-court-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man arrested for missing child sexual abuse court appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 72-year-old Lehigh Acres man was arrested Thursday for failing to appear in court on charges of possession of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-80-png.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-80-png.avif 258w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-80-243x300.avif 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Martin Jay Benjamin was initially arrested on Dec. 3, 2024, on ten counts of possession of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, agents started investigating in November after learning an online user offered to share child sexual exploitation files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agents identified Benjamin&#8217;s residential address as that of the online user&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FDLE conducted a residential search warrant and seized electronic devices. Preliminary digital forensic analysis found multiple files of sexual abuse of children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benjamin was taken to the Lee County Jail. On Thursday, Feb. 20, FDLE agents contacted Benjamin at his residence and arrested him for failing to appear for his court case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to FDLE, he was taken to the Lee County Jail and is being held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year-old Lehigh Acres man was arrested Thursday for failing to appear in court on charges of possession of child sexual abuse material. Martin Jay Benjamin was initially arrested on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2990],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60549"}],"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=60549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60551,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60549\/revisions\/60551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}