Crime & Safety

Teen Charged with Sexual Battery

According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Savoy Freebourne was arrested after deputies received information that he had sexually battered a child under the age of 12.

An 18-year-old male is in the Pinellas County Jail today after being arrested on five counts of sexual battery on a child under the age of 12.

According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Savoy Freebourne was arrested after deputies received information that he had sexually battered a child under the age of 12. The child was known to him.

Under state law no further information will be released that would tend to identify the child.

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Freebourne, according to jail records, was taken into custody Friday night, Oct. 26.

Deputies say the alleged abuse occurred from the end of July until now.

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