{"id":475539,"date":"2026-09-25T17:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475539\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:52:16","slug":"fresno-church-volunteer-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475539\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno church volunteer accused of sexually assaulting kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fresno officers arrested a 57-year-old on suspicion of sexually assaulting minors. Local church leaders alerted authorities after members expressed concerns.<\/p>\n

THADDEUS MILLER<\/p>\n

tmiller@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n

Authorities arrested a 57-year-old man earlier this month on suspicion of illegal sexual acts with three underage victims.<\/p>\n

Fresno police spokesperson Lt. Larry Bowlan said the case began Aug. 27. Leaders of a local church alerted authorities that members had raised concerns that Benjamin Mora \u2014 a volunteer at the church \u2014 had possibly assaulted minors.<\/p>\n

Detectives arrested Mora on Sept. 4, accusing him of assaulting the minors beginning in 2025.<\/p>\n

Bowlan said Mora was booked into Fresno County Jail on charges related to sexual assault. Booking records show that Mora is being held on $385,000 bail and is still in custody.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the case can call the Fresno Police Department at 559-621-7000<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and joined The Bee in 2025.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno officers arrested a 57-year-old on suspicion of sexually assaulting minors. Local church leaders alerted authorities after members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-475539","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\/475539","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=475539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}