{"id":504639,"date":"2026-10-22T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504639\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:24:10","slug":"san-diego-man-arrested-on-suspected-child-sexual-abuse-at-in-home-montessori-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504639\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego man arrested on suspected child sexual abuse at in-home Montessori school"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 35-year-old San Diego<\/a> man was arrested<\/a> on 12 felony<\/a> counts tied to child sexual abuse<\/a> that police allege happened at an in-home Montessori school he had access to.<\/p>\n

Abhishek Sareen was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon after being booked into San Diego County Jail early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

The San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force said it received online tips on Monday containing suspected child sexual abuse exploitation material, resulting in detectives launching an investigation immediately.<\/p>\n

Detectives determined that Sareen had regular access to an unknown number of children at the Lotus Learners Montessori School, an in-home daycare where he resided and served search warrants Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Officials said that there are at least three potential victims. Two have been identified with their families alerted, while a possible third victim remains unidentified.<\/p>\n

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The investigation remains ongoing as detectives review all evidence to determine if there are more victims.<\/p>\n

No children were present at the time of his arrest, the San Diego Police Department said.<\/p>\n

The records list charges including sexual offenses against a child 10 or younger, lewd acts with a child under 14, possessing child sexual abuse material and using a minor in obscene material.<\/p>\n

According to the school’s website, there are three locations throughout San Diego. The “original home” opened in 2011; the “second home” opened in 2012 and the “newest home” opened in 2017.<\/p>\n

“Lotus Learners Montessori is a family-run, home-based preschool in North County San Diego. Enrolling children ages 2 to 6 across three neighborhood locations,” the website said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 35-year-old San Diego man was arrested on 12 felony counts tied to child sexual abuse that police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-504639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504639","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=504639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}