{"id":147507,"date":"2018-01-19T02:31:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T07:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147507"},"modified":"2018-01-19T02:31:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T07:31:03","slug":"louisiana-tvs-mr-wonder-gets-5-years-for-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/19\/louisiana-tvs-mr-wonder-gets-5-years-for-child-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana TV&#8217;s &#8216;Mr. Wonder&#8217; gets 5 years for child sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled-design-2-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109516\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled-design-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"FEATURED PHOTO\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FEATURED PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ALEXANDRIA, La. \u2014 A former children&#8217;s television show host known as \u201cMr. Wonder\u201d has been sentenced to five years in prison, nearly four decades after he vanished amid allegations that he sexually abused children on a camping trip.<\/p>\n<p>Rapides Parish prosecutor Brian Mosley said in a statement that Frank John Selas III pleaded guilty Thursday to indecent behaviour with a child, and a judge gave him credit for the time he&#8217;s served since his January 2016 arrest in California.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1970s, Selas hosted the \u201cMr. Wonder\u201d show on KNOE-TV in north Louisiana. He allegedly fled to Brazil in 1979 after parents complained to authorities that he abused their children.<\/p>\n<p>Selas had settled in the San Diego area by 1985 and legally changed his name to Frank Szeles in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALEXANDRIA, La. \u2014 A former children&#8217;s television show host known as \u201cMr. Wonder\u201d has been sentenced to five years in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[43993,43994,43992],"class_list":["post-147507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-child-sex-abuse","tag-frank-john-selas-iii","tag-louisiana-tvs-mr-wonder","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}