{"id":534760,"date":"2026-03-14T00:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534760\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:06:11","slug":"ex-boy-scouts-volunteer-in-toronto-charged-in-historical-sex-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534760\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Boy Scouts volunteer in Toronto charged in historical sex assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have charged a former Boy Scouts volunteer accused of sexually assaulting two youths and an adult in the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65339\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65339\/\">In a news release on Friday<\/a>, police said the alleged sexual assaults took place in Toronto and Algonquin Provincial Park between 1988 and 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During that time, police noted that the accused volunteered with a Boy Scouts group that operated out of a church <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/Bloor+Street+West+and+Bathurst+Street+area\/@43.6652329,-79.4124091,17z?entry=s&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=1t%3A199789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/Bloor+Street+West+and+Bathurst+Street+area\/@43.6652329,-79.4124091,17z?entry=s&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=1t%3A199789\">in the area of Bloor Street West and Bathurst Street.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect, identified as 63-year-old Edwin Garcia, was arrested on Jan. 17, 2026, and charged with five counts of sexual assault and two counts of sexual interference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators believe there may be more victims and are asking anyone with information to contact them at 416-808-1200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have charged a former Boy Scouts volunteer accused of sexually assaulting two youths and an adult&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-534760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534760","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=534760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}