{"id":60742,"date":"2025-04-25T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60742"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:14:21","slug":"child-molester-sentenced-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/04\/child-molester-sentenced-to-life-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILD MOLESTER SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Convicted child molester, Graciano Lopez, of Lehigh Acres, has been sentenced to life in prison for Lewd and Lascivious Molestation of a Child under 12. He was also designated a sexual predator.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/graciano-lopez-mug.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/graciano-lopez-mug.avif 267w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/graciano-lopez-mug-223x300.avif 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The defendant was convicted in March following a trial in Lee County. Assistant State Attorney Adam Sullivan prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crime was reported to the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office in January 2024, after the child victim told a family member what happened. The defendant groped the child while she lay sleeping in a bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted child molester, Graciano Lopez, of Lehigh Acres, has been sentenced to life in prison for Lewd and Lascivious Molestation of a Child under 12. He was also designated a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[3036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60742"}],"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=60742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60744,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60742\/revisions\/60744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}