{"id":444178,"date":"2026-09-22T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444178\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:16:11","slug":"fort-worth-barber-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-child-at-business-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444178\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth barber accused of sexually assaulting child at business, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fort Worth<\/a> barber is accused of sexually assaulting a child at his own barbershop earlier this month. Police are investigating to determine whether there are additional victims.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fort Worth Police<\/a> announced the arrest of Hugo Jimenez Rodriguez. The department said he is accused of assaulting a child at Salon Hugo, located at 4075 East Lancaster Avenue. The incident in question reportedly happened on Friday, Sept. 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez Rodriguez is now charged with sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by contact.<\/p>\n<p>As the investigation continues, Fort Worth Police say there may be more victims, particularly among Spanish-speaking youth. Anyone who thinks they may be a victim is asked to call Detective Lopez at 682-382-1509. The department says resources and support are available to those who choose to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hugo.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"hugo.jpg \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Fort Worth Police Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth barber is accused of sexually assaulting a child at his own barbershop earlier this month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,116,118,117,2238],"class_list":["post-444178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444178","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=444178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}