{"id":627,"date":"2018-01-25T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clearwatercriminallawyer.net\/?p=627"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:08:47","slug":"time-limits-criminal-charges-florida-sex-crime-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneyclearwater.net\/blog\/time-limits-criminal-charges-florida-sex-crime-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Limits on Criminal Charges in Florida Sex Crime Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

A statute of limitations in criminal cases generally refers to the time limits for prosecutors to charge a person with a criminal offense. These limits often come up in child sex crimes and other cases in Florida. As the state\u2019s Fourth District Court of Appeals recently explained<\/a>, prosecutors generally can\u2019t charge someone with a crime after the limitations period has expired.A defendant was charged with three sex crimes stemming from an incident involving his former girlfriend\u2019s young daughters. The girls had been abandoned by their mother, according to the court, and were living with their grandmother at the time. The defendant still saw the children from time to time. The incident occurred while the two girls and their brother were helping him clean his apartment and staying overnight. First, he allegedly asked the 12-year-old daughter to massage his penis. The girl complied, despite saying that she didn\u2019t want to do it, according to the court. He then led the girl into the bathroom and had sex with her. Later during the night, he allegedly rubbed the 10-year-old daughter\u2019s breasts and vagina while she was sleeping.<\/p>\n

The defendant was convicted following trial for sexual battery on a child, lewd and lascivious molestation of a child between the ages of 12 and 16, and lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12. He was designated a sexual predator and sentenced to 75 years in prison.<\/p>\n

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A statute of limitations in criminal cases generally refers to the time limits for prosecutors to charge a person with a criminal offense. These limits often come up in child sex crimes and other cases in Florida. As the state\u2019s Fourth District Court of Appeals recently explained, prosecutors generally can\u2019t charge someone with a crime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-crimes"],"yoast_head":"\nSex Charge: Time Limits Criminal Charges Sex Crime<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Accused of sex crime charges? See how this ruling on time limits criminal charges may help or hurt your defense in Pinellas County. 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