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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier repeats call for State Attorney Worrell to ‘do her job’

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier accuses State Attorney Monique Worrell of dismissing serious child predator cases, citing a 21% backlog decrease but over 10,000 cases remain.

  • On Friday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier held a press conference in Orlando accusing Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Monique Worrell of declining to prosecute two child predator cases and demanded charges in a splash-pad incident last month in Apopka.
  • The background shows that the splash-pad incident occurred on August 16 at Kit Land Nelson Park, Apopka, and investigators on June 4 found thousands of child pornography files in the Thomas Dolgos case.
  • According to the files and interviews, Uthmeier says video evidence and witness testimony exist, but the prosecutor assigned to the splash-pad case explained the victim's father left a 45-minute conversation understanding statutory limits prevented charges.
  • As a result, the Office of Statewide Prosecution is pursuing original child-pornography counts plus 48 additional counts from the August 28 arrest, while Thomas Dolgos was apprehended at the Canadian border, extradited, and now faces dozens of CSAM charges.
  • Worrell pushed back, saying Uthmeier's criticism is politically motivated after her August 2023 removal by Governor Ron DeSantis and reelection, while Uthmeier said, `She gave this man a free walk in the park, and now other kids are in jeopardy.
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FOX13news broke the news in Florida, United States on Friday, September 26, 2025.
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