{"id":716539,"date":"2026-06-05T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716539\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:26:08","slug":"canberra-man-charged-with-almost-70-sexual-assault-and-violence-offences-against-multiple-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716539\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra man charged with almost 70 sexual assault and violence offences against multiple women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 36-year-old Canberra man is facing nearly 70 sexual assault and violence charges after his arrest on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">ACT police said today that the man&#8217;s Bruce home had been searched by officers from the sexual assault and child abuse team.<\/p>\n<p>Support services:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">These services can help sexual violence victim-survivors:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement, police said multiple women had contacted them in late 2025 and early 2026 to accuse the man of various crimes while he was in relationships with them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The women alleged he committed multiple violent assaults against them beginning in 2024, including sexual assaults, physical assaults and strangulation,&#8221;  the police statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was charged with 69 offences, police said, including multiple counts of sexual intercourse without consent, aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm, aggravated choke and render a person insensible and aggravated common assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man made a brief appearance in the ACT Magistrates Court today, where his bail application was denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are urging anyone who has or knows someone who has been affected by sexual violence to visit a police station or contact them on 131 444.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old Canberra man is facing nearly 70 sexual assault and violence charges after his arrest on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7814,2666,64,63,76251,2667,23218,1108,2668,11554,344585,44,242157,347677,1158,3637,145821,6671,194249,7813],"class_list":["post-716539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-abuse","tag-act","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bruce","tag-canberra","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-local-stories","tag-man","tag-multiple-women","tag-news","tag-offences","tag-physical-attacks","tag-police","tag-relationships","tag-search-warrant","tag-sexual-assault","tag-strangulation","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}