{"id":4997,"date":"2026-09-07T23:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/st-louis-jury-commits-sexually-predator-herrell-birts\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:24:54","slug":"st-louis-jury-commits-sexually-predator-herrell-birts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/st-louis-jury-commits-sexually-predator-herrell-birts\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Jury Commits Sexually Predator Herrell Birts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 7, 2026 (STL.News) \u2014 A St. Louis jury has found a repeat sexual offender to be a Sexually Violent Predator under Missouri law, resulting in his civil commitment to the Missouri Department of Mental Health for control, care and treatment. Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced September 4 that the office\u2019s Sexually Violent Predator Unit secured the civil commitment of Herrell Birts following a jury trial in the City of St. Louis. The jury determined that Birts met Missouri\u2019s legal requirements for classification as a Sexually Violent Predator, commonly referred to as an SVP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-jury-sexually-predator-herrell-birts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 7, 2026 (STL.News) \u2014 A St. Louis jury has found a repeat sexual offender to be a Sexually Violent Predator under Missouri law, resulting in his civil commitment to the Missouri Department of Mental Health&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4999,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions\/4999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}