{"id":648686,"date":"2026-05-05T05:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648686\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:21:21","slug":"mississauga-man-charged-in-connection-with-sexual-assault-at-welland-ont-former-daycare-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/648686\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississauga man charged in connection with sexual assault at Welland, Ont., former daycare, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Mississauga man is facing seven charges, police say, in connection with a sexual assault investigation at a former daycare in Welland, Ont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Juan Carlos Castillo-Fuenmayor, 61, was arrested last week. Niagara police say they identified a suspect via a DNA warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police started the investigation in August of 2024 at a former daycare located on Heron Street in Welland. Niagara police spokesperson Const. Jessica Martin told CBC Hamilton in an email the daycare was operating at the time the investigation started.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She also said Castillo-Fuenmayor was not an employee of the daycare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Niagara police said there may be other victims in the case and are asking anyone with information to come forward or report anonymously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Castillo-Fuenmayor was charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, two counts of exposing genitals to a person under 16, two counts of sexual touching, and making sexual material available to a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mississauga man is facing seven charges, police say, in connection with a sexual assault investigation at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,241168,179996,241167,241166,55405,202272,7739,222306,210511,106043,154056],"class_list":["post-648686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-castillo-fuenmayor","tag-daycare","tag-jessica-martin","tag-juan-carlos-castillo-fuenmayor","tag-mississauga","tag-police-spokesperson","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-interference","tag-sexual-touching","tag-the-investigation","tag-welland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648686","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=648686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}