{"id":534742,"date":"2026-03-13T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534742\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:56:10","slug":"ex-boy-scouts-leader-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-teens-in-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534742\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Boy Scouts leader accused of sexually assaulting teens in 70s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A former Newmarket Boy Scouts leader has been charged in connection with alleged sexual assaults of teenage boys dating back to the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/en\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=a4916eae-1c4c-477e-835d-eb465e564e66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/en\/Modules\/News\/index.aspx?newsId=a4916eae-1c4c-477e-835d-eb465e564e66\">York Regional Police said<\/a> the victims, who were 16 years old at the time of the alleged incidents, came forward earlier this year, and an investigation was launched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a result, 73-year-old Aubrey Wayne Stentiford from Georgina, Ont., was arrested on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been charged with four counts each of incident assault of male and gross indecency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Stentiford, who was commonly known as Wayne, worked as a leader with the 6th Newmarket Boy Scouts between the early 1970s and 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the time of the alleged incidents, he also had connections to the Kawartha Lakes Region, police noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They added that Stentiford was also a school bus driver in York Region until the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police believe there could be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They are asking anyone with information to contact investigators with the Special Victims Unit at 1-866-876-5423 ext. 7075 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Newmarket Boy Scouts leader has been charged in connection with alleged sexual assaults of teenage boys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-534742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534742","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=534742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}