{"id":391490,"date":"2026-07-09T02:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391490\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:09:38","slug":"former-visalia-unified-employee-sentenced-for-sexually-abusing-two-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391490\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Visalia Unified employee sentenced for sexually abusing two teens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KFSN<\/p>\n

Thursday, July 9, 2026 12:39AM<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/p>\n

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) — A former Visalia Unified employee has learned his punishment for sexually abusing two 15-year-old girls.<\/p>\n

40-year-old Dejaun Jones was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for lewd acts with teens.<\/p>\n

Jones worked at Mount Whitney High School as a campus supervisor.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say his illegal behavior began in 2022.<\/p>\n

In 2023, he was accused of exchanging nude photos with a 15-year-old girl and touching her inappropriately.<\/p>\n

Jones pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges back in May.<\/p>\n

One of his victims was awarded an $8 million settlement<\/a> for a sexual abuse case against the Visalia Unified School District.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 9, 2026 12:39AM VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) — A former Visalia Unified employee has learned his punishment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[157527,157526,112,114,113,294],"class_list":["post-391490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-157527","tag-former-visalia-unified-employee-sentenced-for-lewd-acts-with-teens","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391490","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=391490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}