{"id":494992,"date":"2026-02-23T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:40:11","slug":"police-seeking-other-victims-in-sex-assault-case-involving-disabled-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494992\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seeking other victims in sex assault case involving disabled person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish-date\">Posted Feb 23, 2026 04:21:35 PM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-modified-date\">Last Updated Feb 23, 2026 04:21:44 PM.<\/p>\n<p>An Ottawa man is facing charges after an investigation by Ottawa police found evidence that a sex-related crime was committed against a person with a disability. <\/p>\n<p>According to officials, an investigation was launched in early January and involved one male victim. The offences happened between September and December 2025. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, Robert Gorley, 71, was arrested and charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a person with a disability.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe there may be other victims. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Ottawa Police Service\u2019s Sexual and Child Abuse Unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5944, or email <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.citynews.ca\/2026\/02\/23\/police-seeking-other-victims-in-sex-assault-case-involving-disabled-person\/mailto:saca@ottawapolice.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">saca@ottawapolice.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Feb 23, 2026 04:21:35 PM. Last Updated Feb 23, 2026 04:21:44 PM. An Ottawa man is facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-494992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}