{"id":687543,"date":"2026-05-23T01:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687543\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T01:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:24:16","slug":"police-search-for-man-in-alleged-sexual-assault-of-8-year-old-at-scarborough-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687543\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for man in alleged sexual assault of 8-year-old at Scarborough mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl at a Scarborough mall.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say just before 4 p.m. on May 12, the man approached the girl inside a store at Woodside Square at Finch Avenue East and McCowan Road.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege he sexually assaulted the girl and followed her around the store before grabbing her. She then alerted family members, who confronted the man before he fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The man is described as 20 to 30 years of age with eyeglasses. He was last seen wearing a green Nike baseball cap on backwards, with a white \u201cswoosh\u201d logo, a long-sleeved green shirt and back track pants with white lettering down the left leg.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have seen the man or has additional information is asked to contact the police.<\/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":"Police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl at a Scarborough mall. Investigators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-687543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687543","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=687543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}