{"id":30712,"date":"2025-10-30T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30712\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:18:11","slug":"coarsegold-pastor-arrested-for-sexual-offenses-against-teenager-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30712\/","title":{"rendered":"Coarsegold pastor arrested for sexual offenses against teenager, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">COARSEGOLD, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Coarsegold pastor is in custody after deputies say he committed sexual offenses against a teenager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Madera County Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrested Joshua David Kemper at his home on Tuesday after a months-long investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The investigation started in July when church officials filed a report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Deputies say that Kemper was contacting a 15-year-old girl for lewd acts between March and July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They added that there were multiple incidents at the church, the girl&#8217;s home and the pastor&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives also found sexually explicit pictures and videos between the two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Deputies say Kemper used a VoIP phone number to communicate with the teen, which allows you to make calls over the internet instead of a phone line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kemper is facing numerous charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone who may have been a victim or has more information is asked to contact the Madera County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COARSEGOLD, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Coarsegold pastor is in custody after deputies say he committed sexual offenses against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[22587,22584,112,114,113,22585,15836,22586,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-30712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-22587","9":"tag-coarsegold","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-pastor-arrested","14":"tag-sexual-abuse","15":"tag-teenager","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712","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=30712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}