{"id":6308,"date":"2026-10-23T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/sarasota-massage-therapist-faces-sexual-battery-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:08:40","slug":"sarasota-massage-therapist-faces-sexual-battery-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/sarasota-massage-therapist-faces-sexual-battery-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarasota Massage Therapist Faces Sexual Battery Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SARASOTA, FL \u2013 October 23, 2026 (STL.News) A Florida massage therapist accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a treatment session at a Sarasota chiropractic clinic is scheduled to stand trial in December, as additional allegations involving other women have prompted a civil lawsuit and a state investigation into his professional license. Juan Carlos Fleitas-Tamayo, 54, of Bradenton, was arrested Feb. 21, 2025, by the Sarasota Police Department and charged with felony sexual battery following allegations involving a patient receiving massage therapy after a motor vehicle accident. Fleitas-Tamayo has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FtR_kOuf4G3w%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sarasota massage therapist faces felony sexual battery charge, investigators say\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tR_kOuf4G3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> The criminal case<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/sarasota-massage-therapist-faces-sexual-battery-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARASOTA, FL \u2013 October 23, 2026 (STL.News) A Florida massage therapist accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a treatment session at a Sarasota chiropractic clinic is scheduled to stand trial in December, as additional allegations involving other women have&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6308","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\/6308","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=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6310,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions\/6310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}