A Miami man is suing ABC affiliate WPLG after he was cut into a promo about clusters of sexual offenders in the area.
Gossip Extra reports Wilfredo Bautista says he never gave WPLG permission to use his image and doesn’t know how it got in the promo. WPLG says it didn’t need his permission to shoot the video.
Courthouse News Service reported the lawsuit in April 2015.
The complaint states that the station said that all sex offenders reside in a certain zip code, and exploited Batista’s picture to support its allegations.
Batista claims the station fabricated the story and falsely depicted him to the public cheapening his name, and offending him in front of the general audience.
According to his attorney, Theodore Enfield, Channel 10 televised Batista’s picture, and labeled him as a sex offender without a reason.
Miami- Dade County Police Department’s public records do not show or list plaintiff as a sex offender.
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