Former Manitoba cabinet\u00a0minister and Winnipeg City Councillor Scott Felding\u00a0has been charged with sexual assault.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Winnipeg police said on Friday that Fielding, 53, was arrested Thursday in connection to with a sexual assault incident that happened in March 2024.<\/p>\n
Police said Fielding and a 34-year-old woman were employed at the same firm at the time of the assault and had attended a work conference.<\/p>\n
During one evening of the conference, police say Fielding and the survivor attended different establishments in a social setting along with other co-workers.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s alleged, at the end of the night, Fielding escorted the woman back to her hotel room where a sexual assault occurred.<\/p>\n
In January 2025, the victim reported the incident to law enforcement in another jurisdiction who in turn informed the Winnipeg police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fielding was arrested and charged with sexual assault. He was released on a undertaking and will appear in court later.\u00a0<\/p>\n
None of these charges have been proven in court.<\/p>\n
CityNews reached out to Fielding for comment and hasn\u2019t heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manitoba cabinet\u00a0minister and Winnipeg City Councillor Scott Felding\u00a0has been charged with sexual assault.\u00a0\u00a0 Winnipeg police said on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-565442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565442","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=565442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}