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A high-risk sex offender who was being monitored by police has been charged after officers found him in the process of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in Winnipeg on Wednesday evening, police say.
Officers went to investigate a report of a sexual assault that was happening on Stanley Street, between Logan and Higgins avenues, just after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, police said in a news release.
A man was sexually assaulting an unconscious woman when police got there, they said.
Officers arrested the man, and the woman was taken to hospital in stable condition.
Harley Aaron Okemow, 34, has been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm. He was detained in custody, police said.
Okemow was being monitored by the Manitoba Integrated High Risk Sex Offenders Unit, a joint unit of the Winnipeg Police Service and the RCMP.