MANATEE COUNTY- A former Braden River High School student charged with sexually assaulting four teenage boys last year, accepted a plea deal preventing him from serving any jail time.
Zy’Quarious “Zeek” Manning, 18, was convicted August 2 on five counts of child abuse after being accused of sexually assaulting four boys; he will serve no jail time, and he will spend two years under “community control,” followed by three years of probation. He will also have to undergo sex offender treatment and is prohibited from using social media or contacting the victims in the case
Manning was arrested in August 2018 and charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious molestation, lewd and lascivious battery and misdemeanor battery, all on victims between the ages of 14 and 17..