{"id":238103,"date":"2026-05-20T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238103\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:39:09","slug":"manhattan-beach-therapist-allegedly-recorded-young-girls-in-public-restroom-fbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238103\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Beach therapist allegedly recorded young girls in public restroom, FBI says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI said it&#8217;s looking for more information from the public after the arrest of a Manhattan Beach therapist accused of producing child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYkF8gXnLp8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">post to social media<\/a>, the FBI&#8217;s Los Angeles Division said a federal grand jury has indicted 30-year-old Joseph Toews on accusations that he secretly recorded young girls in a public restroom within a workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The victims are believed to be between the ages of 8 and 12.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI also alleged that Toews purchased &#8220;graphic child pornography&#8221; on dark websites on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Toews is currently in federal custody.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is asking for insight from people who believe they&#8217;re aware of Toew&#8217;s alleged behavior or if they have information regarding a possible victim. Anyone with information can contact the FBI at 310 477-6565 or online at tips.fbi.gov.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI said it&#8217;s looking for more information from the public after the arrest of a Manhattan Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-238103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}