Overview
- A Hernando County grand jury indicted Holmberg, 36, on 25 counts, including seven capital sexual battery charges on a child under 12.
- Attorney General James Uthmeier and Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Bill Gladson announced the death-penalty pursuit and said the investigation remains active.
- Officials said multiple children are believed to be victims, including a child as young as 3, and additional charges are expected in other counties.
- Prosecutors will proceed under Florida’s 2023 statute while urging the Supreme Court to revisit Kennedy v. Louisiana, which barred executions for child rape.
- The case was developed by a statewide special task force with multi-jurisdictional authority, and Holmberg was arrested Oct. 20 after a multi-circuit probe.