{"id":399710,"date":"2026-07-15T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:25:16","slug":"fresno-tutor-busted-for-allegedly-grooming-kids-in-discord-sex-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399710\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno tutor busted for allegedly grooming kids in Discord sex chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An afterschool tutor at Fresno High School allegedly exchanged child sex abuse material with children online and arranged to meet a minor, the Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Keebtsim Txhim Christopher Xiong, 26, of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/26\/us-news\/former-fresno-unified-teacher-faces-charges-of-lewd-acts-involving-five-girls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno<\/a>, was arrested\u00a0after an investigation by the state\u2019s task force on internet crimes against children. The force is comprised of 68 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies spread throughout nine counties in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39991937\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/file-image-fresno-high-school1839-134491335.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno High School building.\" class=\"wp-image-39991937\"  \/>Fresno High School Google Maps<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7578125;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39991945\" width=\"447\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/keebtsim-txhim-christopher-xiong-booking-134490792.jpg\" alt=\"Booking photo of Keebtsim Txhim Christopher Xiong.\" class=\"wp-image-39991945\"  \/>Keebtsim Txhim Christopher Xiong  Fresno County Sheriff\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>Someone had alerted the task force that Xiong was communicating inappropriately with children on messaging platform Discord. Among the messages were sexually explicit material, detectives alleged.<\/p>\n<p>With one of the children, he allegedly sent messages attempting to arrange a meetup.<\/p>\n<p>Xiong had worked as a tutor through the California Teaching Fellows Foundation, a nonprofit which describes itself as \u201cproviding school districts and school sites with trained college students and future leaders who serve as role models, tutors, and activity leaders.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The foundation has a contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/09\/us-news\/mayors-shocking-texts-to-major-school-district-trustees-over-his-200m-a-year-signature-policy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Unified School District<\/a>, and the foundation has placed Xiong on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p>Xiong paid his $100,000 bail to be released from jail and will have a future court date. <\/p>\n<p>Additional victims may come forward, detectives said. Anyone with more information is urged to contact the Fresno County Sheriff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An afterschool tutor at Fresno High School allegedly exchanged child sex abuse material with children online and arranged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7,112,114,113,15251,4182,25789,15836,3586],"class_list":["post-399710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-high-schools","tag-metro","tag-sex-crimes","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399710","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=399710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}