{"id":656235,"date":"2026-05-08T15:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656235\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:35:25","slug":"brampton-man-charged-after-child-approached-in-change-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656235\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man charged after child approached in change room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peel Regional Police are urging the public to come forward with information after a 40\u2011year\u2011old Brampton man was arrested in connection with an indecent act involving a child at a local recreation facility.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on April 26 around 3:15 p.m., when a child was using a change room at a recreation centre in the area of Dixie Road and Balmoral Drive. <\/p>\n<p>Police say an unknown man approached the child, attempted to communicate with them, and tried to lure the child into a stall. The child immediately fled and alerted a parent.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, the same man was reportedly seen outside the facility exposing himself, prompting staff and witnesses to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested Patrick Rabideau\u2011Blackadder, 40, of Brampton, on Monday. He is charged with invitation to sexual touching, criminal harassment, mischief, and indecent act.<\/p>\n<p>Rabideau\u2011Blackadder was held in custody pending a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say there may be additional victims who have not yet come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peel Regional Police are urging the public to come forward with information after a 40\u2011year\u2011old Brampton man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-656235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656235","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=656235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}