{"id":360258,"date":"2026-09-30T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360258\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:02:07","slug":"manhattan-beach-therapist-sentenced-for-secretly-recording-patients-in-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360258\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Beach therapist sentenced for secretly recording patients in bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan Beach family therapist was sentenced to federal prison for secretly recording young girls in a bathroom, some of whom were his patients.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Toews, 31, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison, ordered to pay $105,000, and to 25 years of supervised release after his prison sentence ends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Toews pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography on June 23, 2026, roughly two months after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/manhattan-beach-therapist-allegedly-recorded-young-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FBI arrested him.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice said he installed the camera inside a stall of the women&#8217;s bathroom at his office around January 2023. Prosecutors said that he secretly recorded 11 separate videos of minor victims, some of whom were his patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FBI said the victims were between the ages of 8 and 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of his plea agreement, Toews admitted to receiving child sexual abuse material and buying sexually explicit videos of children through online stores on the darknet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Toews actions were &#8220;not a spur-of-the-moment happening&#8221; and that he had &#8220;been stockpiling CSAM&#8221; before installing the hidden camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan Beach family therapist was sentenced to federal prison for secretly recording young girls in a bathroom,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-360258","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\/360258","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=360258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}