{"id":597663,"date":"2026-04-11T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:46:07","slug":"richard-mantha-to-be-sentenced-in-august-for-3-sex-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597663\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Mantha to be sentenced in August for 3 sex assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2026\/04\/07\/calgary-mantha-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">found guilty this week<\/a> of sexually assaulting three vulnerable women, and drugging one of them, at a rural home east of\u00a0Calgary\u00a0will be back for a sentencing hearing in August.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Robert Mantha, 62, was convicted of six offences: two counts of sexual assault, choking while committing a sexual assault, administering a noxious substance, assault with a weapon, and uttering threats against a fourth woman.<\/p>\n<p>Other charges against him were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Mantha, who initially faced 20 charges, was accused of attacking seven women between August 2019 and April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Charges involving the seventh complainant were earlier dismissed, because she died before the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Court heard most of the women worked in Calgary\u2019s sex trade.<\/p>\n<p>A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for August 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was found guilty this week of sexually assaulting three vulnerable women, and drugging one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-597663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597663","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=597663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}