{"id":441351,"date":"2026-08-23T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441351\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:28:25","slug":"man-convictred-of-molesting-5-girls-in-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441351\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Convictred of Molesting 5 Girls in Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old man was convicted Wednesday of molesting five girls in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Cruz was convicted of nine felony sex charges involving the girls dating back to 2011, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz lived with the victims in a multifamily home with 16 relatives, police testified at his preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the girls said the molestation started when she was 5 years old, police testified. Another girl who was about seven months younger said she was also molested, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Another girl said she was molested, starting when she was 10 years old, and another said she was 6 or 7 years old when she was attacked, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 23 in the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 68-year-old man was convicted Wednesday of molesting five girls in Anaheim. Tomas Cruz was convicted of nine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,174889,9515,15727],"class_list":["post-441351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-convictred","tag-girls","tag-molesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441351","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=441351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}