Florida Child Neglect Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Michael Ray Pennington </h2> </center>
Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> In November 2025, federal and local law enforcement conducted an undercover operation to identify and appr... More...
$ (08-06-2026 - FL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Bryan Steven Etheridge </h2> </center>
Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with making false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> On May 10, 2025, Bryan Steven Etheridge, age 40, Lake City, Columbia County, Florida, attempted to purchase a .... More...
$ (08-05-2026 - FL)<h2> <center> State of Florida v. Patricia Barberena </h2> </center>
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with child neglect with physical in jury. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Patricia Barberena, 62, a school bus driver failed to assure that all the kids on her bus had been delivered to their schools and, as a result, one... More...
$ (06-06-2026 - FL)<h2> <center> State of Florida v. Joseph Sanderson </h2> </center>
Milton, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with violation of conditions for suspended sentence. Joseph Sanderson violated probation. 2 must make such findings. We reject the argument and affirm Appellant’s judgment and sentence. Appellant was on sex-offender probation after admitting guilt for fifteen counts of possession of child sexual abuse material i... More...
$ (04-09-2026 - FL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Tomás Niembro Concha </h2> </center>
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Powers Act and Wire Fraud. Tomás Niembro Concha, 64, of Miami, Florida, conspired with others to siphon money from Nodus Bank, ultimately leading to the bank’s failure in 2023. Niembro and his co-conspirators concealed from other Nodus Bank board members and execut... More...
$ (03-21-2026 - FL)<h2> <center> State of Florida v. Maria Roda Blanco </h2> >/center>
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer will represent the Defendant charged with assault and battery and driving without a license. Maria Roda Blanco accused for slapping an employee of the daycare center where her child was being cared for. Roda-Blanco, who was born in Uruguay and doesn’t have a criminal record, faced a charge of battery on a school employee and a U.S. Immigration and Cu... More...
$ (03-16-2026 - FL)State of Florida v. Roslain Arabi Perdomo
Miami, Florida criminal dense lawyer represents the Defendant charged with child neglect. Roslain Arabi Perdomo, age 36, was found outside her home nude with her daughter. Florida child neglect law (Section 827.03) defines neglect as a caregiver’s failure to provide a child with necessary care, such as food, shelter, clothing, medical care, or supervision, which causes or is likely to cau... More...
$ (02-16-2026 - FL)State of Florida v. Emily Sabogal </j2?
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, criminal defendant lawyer represented the Defendant charged with neglect of a child without great bodily harm and desertion of a child. Emily Sabogal, 32, was accused of leaving her children in Uber for hours.... More...
$ (02-16-2026 - FL)United States of America v. Celso Navarro Diaz
Tampa, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to traffic more than five kilograms of cocaine on vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and conspiring to import more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States. Celso Navarro Diaz was the head of an organization in Colombia that transported cocaine and marijuana from the Pac... More...
$ (02-10-2026 - FL)<H2> United States of America v. Jevan Antonio Miller
Tallahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct after previously pleading guilty in federal court. Between April 10, 2025, and April 12, 2025, detectives of the Tallahassee Police Department and the Leon County Sheriff’s Office,... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - FL)<H2> United States of America v. Geoffrey Lee Dudding
Jacksonville, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using his cellphone and the internet to attempt to entice an 11-year-old child to engage in sexual activity. He was also ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release. On January 13, 2025, an FBI agent (UC) in Jacksonville was conducting an undercover operation to identify individuals seeking to make... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - FL)<H2> United States of America v. Bienvenido Leo Rodriguez, et al.
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with conspiring to traffic large quantities of cocaine in and around Miami-Dade County and elsewhere in the Southern District of Florida. The eight-count superseding indictment charges the following defendants—each a resident of Miami unless otherwise indicated—with drug trafficking conspiracy and related offenses: B... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - FL)<H2> Estate of Maria Rivers, et al. v. Nicholas Betancourt
Tampa, Florida personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on auto negligence wrongful death theories. Dana Maria Rivera, age 36, was driving south on Gunn Highway in Odessa on Feb. 28 to pick her fourth child up from school when 33-year-old Nicholas Betancour crossed the center line and crashed into the family’s Lincoln Town Car. Betncourt was found to be under the influen... More...
$76000000 (12-11-2025 - FL)State of Florida v. Natalia Munoz‑Paulino
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.<br> <br> Natalia Munoz‑Paulino, 26, is accused for abusing her child by exposing her to lethal levels of cocaine and methamphetamine.... More...
$0 (11-13-2025 - FL)<H2> United States of America v. gregory Allen Moore
West Palm Beach, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with distribution of child pornography.... More...
$0 (11-11-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Jonathan Warren Jones
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with enticement of a minor.<br> <br> 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) is the federal law that makes it illegal to use the mail or any means of interstate or foreign commerce (including the internet) to entice, persuade, induce, or coerce a minor to engage in prostitution or any other criminal sexual activity<br> <br> Attempt... More...
$0 (10-30-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Osvaldo Daniel Fernandez </h1></h1>
Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production and one count of possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). <br> <br> a federal jury in Miami convicted Argentine national Osvaldo Daniel Fernandez, 61, of two counts of production and one count of possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<br> <br> According to court documents and ... More...
$0 (09-29-2025 - FL)Bryce W. Apgar v. Fast Mico Solutions, Inc.
West Palm Beach, Florida employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Standards Labor Law Act violation theory. <br> <br> Violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) primarily involve failure to pay minimum wage or required overtime, improper classification of employees (especially to avoid overtime), and violations of child labor laws. Other common violations include r... More...
$0 (10-21-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Zin Naing Htun
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and transportation of child pornography.... More...
$0 (09-29-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Harun Abdul-Hamid Yener </h1></h1>
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Bomb the New York Stock Exchange<br> <br> A Coral Springs man was arraigned on a superseding indictment related to a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange.<br> <br> Harun Abdul-Hamid Yener, 30, is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to use an explosive device to damage... More...
$0 (09-24-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Gavin Michael Harold
Fort Myers, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with activities regarding material constituting child pornogrpahy. ... More...
$0 (09-18-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Ahmed Sultan Faraz
West Palm Beach, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of child porn.... More...
$0 (09-10-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Darryl Odely, Jr.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking of a minor by force or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591. <br> <br> In 2021, the minor victim, D.M.C., ran away from home and<br> was reported missing by her family. She was recruited into prosti-<br> tution first by a woman named Keke, then by another woman<br> named Skittles.<br> <b... More...
$0 (08-29-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Jonathan Fernandez-Herak
Key West, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession and distribution of child porn.<br> <br> Fernandez-Herak distributed two videos of child pornography to an online forum titled "No Limit,†which was created for<br> pedophiles, like Fernandez-Herak, to view and share sexual images of minors. The videos that Fernandez-Herak distributed depicted minor m... More...
$0 (08-29-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Terrell Myron </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Orlando, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted enticement of a minor </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Former Middle School Employee Sentenced To 14 Years For Attempted Enticement Of A Minor</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center><... More...
$0 (08-28-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Thomas Ford </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Access With Intent To View Child Sexual Abuse Material </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> St. Petersburg Man Indicted For Access With Intent To View Child Sexual Abuse Material</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i... More...
$0 (08-19-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Mauricio Flores </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Davenport Man Indicted For Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <br> Maurici... More...
$0 (08-19-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Thomas Barber </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Tierra Verde Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></... More...
$0 (08-20-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Alexander James Koby </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Receiving Child Sexual Abuse Materials Over The Internet </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Jacksonville Convicted Child Sex Offender Pleaded Guilty To Receiving Child Sexual Abuse Materials Over The Internet</h2></center></b></b></center></><... More...
$0 (08-20-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Dustin M. Hatcher
Talahassee, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with coercion or enticement of a female.<br> <br> A jury convicted Hatcher of: (1) knowingly<br> attempting to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor to en-<br> gage in sexual activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b); and (2)<br> traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct in violation<br> of ... More...
$0 (08-19-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Jack Edward Coles </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> United Kingdom Citizen Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Prison for Enticement of a Minor</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i>... More...
$0 (08-11-2025 - FL)United States of America v. Ralph Kevin Tovar
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempted sex trafficking of a minor.<br> <br> Ralph Tovar had quite the defense to charges of attempted<br> sex trafficking of a minor: Though he paid $550 in exchange for a<br> hotel key, he was not actually planning to have sex with the<br> thirteen-year-old and fifteen-year-old he thought were behind the<br> door. In... More...
$0 (08-08-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Austin Marko Coates </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Tallahassee Man Sentenced To 20 Years For Child Exploitation Crimes</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center><... More...
$0 (08-05-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Daniel Weatherly </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Creating AI Child Sexual Abuse Images </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Texas Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Creating AI Child Sexual Abuse Images</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br>... More...
$0 (08-05-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. John Don Bannister, Jr. </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Lake County Man Pleads Guilty To Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <br> Un... More...
$0 (08-01-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Daniel N. Pulley </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Child Exploitation Offenses </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Federal Jury Finds Registered Sex Offender Guilty Of Child Exploitation Offenses</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <br> Uni... More...
$0 (08-01-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Joseph Dibello </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting To Entice A 13-Year-Old Child To Engage In Sexual Activity </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> <br> Federal Jury Convicts Wildwood Man Of Attempting To Entice A 13-Year-Old Child To Engage In Sexual Activity</h2></center></b></b></center></... More...
$0 (08-01-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Jesse Roger Armstrong </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Gainesville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> <br> </b>Gainesville man sentenced to 10 years in prison for child pornography possession</h2></center></b></b></center></>... More...
$0 (07-25-2025 - FL)<h1> United States of America v. Andrew Allen Blakney </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexual Relationship With Child And Possession Of Child Sexual Abuse Images </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Fugitive Washington State Sex Offender Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Sexual Relationship With Child And Possession Of Child... More...
$0 (07-15-2025 - FL)John F. Labriola v. Miami-Dade County
Miami, Florida civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a First Amendment violation theory.<br> <br> John Labriola was a media aide for the Miami-Dade Board<br> of County Commissioners. Labriola v. Miami-Dade Cnty., 693 F.<br> Supp. 3d 1284, 1287 (S.D. Fla. 2023). In his own name and on his<br> own time, Labriola wrote an opinion piece that criticized the<br> Equality Act, an as-y... More...
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