{"id":473646,"date":"2026-09-24T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473646\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:52:10","slug":"man-arrested-for-alleged-child-sex-crimes-at-fresno-church-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473646\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for alleged child sex crimes at Fresno church, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 57-year-old man has been arrested for alleged sex crimes with three children at a Fresno church.<\/p>\n<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\/2026\/09\/1790211130_644_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 24, 2026 12:13AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A man has been arrested for alleged sex crimes with three children at a Fresno church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police arrested 57-year-old Benjamin Mora of Fresno on Sept. 4 after receiving a report that he had been involved in unlawful sexual acts with minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say members of a Fresno church alerted its leaders that Mora had possibly assaulted children. Mora was an unpaid volunteer at the church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives allege Mora began the sexual assaults on the three children at the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mora has since been booked into the Fresno County jail on multiple sexual assault charges and is due in court on Oct. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno Police Department is not identifying the church Mora volunteered at for the victim&#8217;s protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information on this incident or who also might be a victim of Mora is urged to contact the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 57-year-old man has been arrested for alleged sex crimes with three children at a Fresno church. Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[186284,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-473646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-186284","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473646","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=473646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}