{"id":473668,"date":"2026-09-24T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473668\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:16:12","slug":"fresno-church-volunteer-accused-of-sex-acts-with-3-juvenile-girls-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473668\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno church volunteer accused of sex acts with 3 juvenile girls, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police arrested a 57-year-old man after investigators say he performed illegal sex acts with three juvenile girls, allegations that surfaced after members of a local church raised concerns about his conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department said it received a report Aug. 27, 2026, that Benjamin Mora of Fresno had been involved in unlawful sexual acts with minors. <\/p>\n<p>Police said Mora was an unpaid volunteer at a local church, and that members of the church alerted church leaders that Mora had possibly assaulted minor children. <\/p>\n<p>Church leaders then reported the matter to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives confirmed that beginning in 2025, Mora performed illegal sex acts with three female juvenile victims, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Mora was arrested Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, and booked into the Fresno County Jail on multiple sexual assault-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking anyone with information about the investigation to contact the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police arrested a 57-year-old man after investigators say he performed illegal sex acts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-473668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473668","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=473668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}