{"id":224830,"date":"2026-03-18T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224830\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:07:11","slug":"socal-school-psychologist-thought-he-was-meeting-a-13-year-old-authorities-say-it-was-a-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224830\/","title":{"rendered":"SoCal school psychologist thought he was meeting a 13-year-old, authorities say. It was a sting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Riverside County school psychologist thought he had arranged a meeting with a 13-year-old, authorities say, but he walked into a sting operation. He now faces three charges related to child sex crimes.<\/p>\n

Paul Ryan Coleman, 46, of Yucaipa was arrested Tuesday following a three-month investigation by county authorities. <\/p>\n

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Paul Ryan Coleman was arrested on suspicion of attempted child molestation, officials say.<\/p>\n

(Riverside County district attorney\u2019s office)<\/p>\n

Coleman, a licensed school psychologist at the Nuview Union School District, planned to meet up with someone he believed was a 13-year-old child but who was actually an undercover investigator, the county district attorney\u2019s office said in a statement<\/a>. He had exchanged hundreds of sexually explicit messages with this individual, authorities said. <\/p>\n

The school district informed parents this week that Coleman resigned after the district learned about the charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were shocked and disturbed by the news of the charges,\u201d the district said in a written statement. \u201cOnce we received information about the charges, we immediately placed Mr. Coleman on administrative leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some members of a Nuevo Community Facebook group<\/a> expressed concern that parents were not informed until a month after the school became aware of the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow so this happened back on Feb 24th and parents are barely being notified,\u201d said one user. \u201cHopefully parents talk to their children to see if [he] tried anything while he was supposedly helping kids in our district.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the message sent to parents, the school claims \u201cno district students are believed to be involved in the incidents that led to the charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nuview Union School District did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Coleman faces one count of attempted child molestation, one count of arranging to meet a minor for sex, and one count of attempting to meet with a minor for sexual gratification.<\/p>\n

He pleaded not guilty to all charges. His next court hearing is March 26.<\/p>\n

Anyone with additional information or who may have been a victim is encouraged to contact Edwin Tapia, Riverside County district attorney senior investigator, at edwintapia@rivcoda.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Riverside County school psychologist thought he had arranged a meeting with a 13-year-old, authorities say, but he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[102453,6577,10772,91122,3413,5744,99360,4579,102451,1776,48,52,51,47,50,49,5659,102450,7087,102452,3025],"class_list":["post-224830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-13-year-old-child","tag-authority","tag-charge","tag-coleman","tag-concern","tag-count","tag-county-district-attorney","tag-district","tag-explicit-message","tag-information","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-minor","tag-nuview-union-school-district","tag-parent","tag-socal-school-psychologist","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224830","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=224830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}