{"id":150572,"date":"2026-01-26T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150572\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:00:09","slug":"ex-oc-church-employee-secretly-recorded-2-children-in-their-bathrooms-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150572\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-OC Church Employee Secretly Recorded 2 Children In Their Bathrooms: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAGUNA HILLS, CA \u2014 A Laguna Hills church is embroiled in a federal child pornography case against a former employee. <\/p>\n<p>Court documents accuse the former employee, Jacob Melvin Hart, of giving two juvenile congregants computers equipped with software that allowed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/01\/23\/ex-oc-church-employee-secretly-recorded-two-juvenile-congregants-in-their-bathrooms-suits-allege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">secretly record them in their bathrooms<\/a>, The Orange County Register reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the lawsuit alleges that members of Crossline Community Church, who employed Hart, were aware that Hart had been convicted in Oregon for a similar offense when he was hired in 2012 to manage the church&#8217;s audiovisual and computer technology operations. <\/p>\n<p>The San Juan Capistrano man was arrested in June 2025 in South Florida at Miami International Airport, according to Local10 News.<\/p>\n<p>Hart was apparently caught with child sexual abuse videos, with authorities claiming they found 33 illicit videos in a &#8220;hidden, password protected folder&#8221; of his iPhone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/06\/24\/ex-youth-pastor-caught-with-child-sex-abuse-videos-at-mia-after-flight-from-haiti-feds-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">showing girls as young as 10<\/a>, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAGUNA HILLS, CA \u2014 A Laguna Hills church is embroiled in a federal child pornography case against a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-150572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}