{"id":346875,"date":"2026-06-04T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346875\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:08:09","slug":"former-fresno-unified-substitute-teacher-and-coach-accused-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346875\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fresno Unified substitute teacher and coach accused of sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, June 4, 2026 6:43PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Former FUSD substitute teacher and coach accused of sexual assault\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A former substitute teacher and football coach at a Fresno Unified school now faces charges of sexual assault against a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Timothy Lemmons Jr., 29, faces four felony counts, including having sex with a victim under the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno County District Attorney&#8217;s office says the alleged crimes took place in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Unified says Lemmons was a substitute teacher and a football coach at McLane High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The school district says when allegations arose in March, they were reported, and Lemmons was blocked from taking substitute jobs until he was fired on April 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The district attorney&#8217;s office filed charges against him in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Lemmons has since bonded out and is expected to be arraigned on August 12.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, June 4, 2026 6:43PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A former substitute teacher and football coach at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[142229,112,114,113,14569,142227,105671,294,142228],"class_list":["post-346875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-142229","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-unified","tag-mclane-high-school","tag-sexual-assault-charge","tag-timely","tag-timothy-lemmons-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346875","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=346875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}