{"id":270955,"date":"2026-04-29T05:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:58:17","slug":"texas-man-accused-of-sex-abuse-involving-montgomery-county-pa-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270955\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man accused of sex abuse involving Montgomery County, Pa. teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WHITPAIN TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A man from Magnolia, Texas, is accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teen in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mitchell Van Dusen, 31, is charged with multiple felonies, including Sexual Abuse of Children.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mitchell Van Dusen\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18991502_042826-wpvi-mitchell-van-dusen-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim told Whitpain Township Police she met Van Dusen in an online chat room, and Van Dusen would send the victim money in exchange for explicit images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the district attorney&#8217;s office, the victim told Van Dusen she was a minor, but the conversations continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Van Dusen is also charged with Human Trafficking of a Minor and Unlawful Contact with a Minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was extradited to Pennsylvania last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Van Dusen is being held on $500,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITPAIN TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A man from Magnolia, Texas, is accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100855,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-270955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-100855","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}