{"id":645874,"date":"2026-05-03T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:48:09","slug":"man-59-charged-after-multiple-health-care-workers-sexually-assaulted-threatened-at-grace-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645874\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 59, charged after multiple health-care workers sexually assaulted, threatened at Grace Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A 59-year-old man is facing several charges after multiple health-care workers were sexually assaulted and threatened at Winnipeg&#8217;s Grace Hospital earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police said in a news release that a man was acting aggressively and making sexually inappropriate comments to staff while he was at the hospital for care between Thursday and Friday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His behavior escalated and hospital security put him into restraints, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said two health-care workers were sexually assaulted while helping the man. One of the workers had her clothes ripped when the man tried to bite her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third health-care worker was verbally threatened, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man was arrested around 2 a.m. on Friday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 59-year-old man has been charged with two counts of sexual assault, assault, and uttering threats to kill or cause harm, the news release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was released on an undertaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police said support is available for sexual assault survivors though <a href=\"https:\/\/url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/0W9pCPY99T0vLYQ9u0hgUxi7ba?domain=communications.winnipeg.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WPS Victim Services<\/a> at 204-986-6350 and the Klinic Sexual Assault Crisis Line at 204-786-8631.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-645874","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\/645874","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=645874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}