{"id":730468,"date":"2026-06-11T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730468\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:14:15","slug":"live-in-nanny-drugged-with-ice-cream-sexually-assaulted-durham-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730468\/","title":{"rendered":"Live-in nanny drugged with ice cream, sexually assaulted: Durham police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An Oshawa man is facing sexual <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">assault<\/a> and child exploitation charges after police allege he drugged an au pair living in his home and working as a child-care provider with ice cream.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The woman travelled to Canada in December 2025 after connecting with a couple through a Facebook\u00a0Au Pair group, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/durham-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Durham Police<\/a> news release.<\/p>\n<p>She lived with the family in Oshawa and helped care for their children in exchange for room and board.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege that on Dec. 12, the man gave the woman ice cream. Shortly after eating it, she began feeling incoherent before losing consciousness and later had no memory of the rest of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The woman sought medical attention and tests later confirmed a noxious substance was present in her system, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Durham Police later confirmed in a statement that the sexual assault charge is in relation to the woman.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2026, police executed a search warrant at the family\u2019s Oshawa home, where they say they seized electronic devices and the same drug allegedly used in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said evidence found on the devices supported the sexual assault investigation. Police also said they found child sexual abuse and exploitation material.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Durham police arrested 38-year-old Derek Bellamy, from Oshawa. He was held for a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are concerned there may be additional victims and have released Bellamy\u2019s photo as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Oshawa man is facing sexual assault and child exploitation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17963,49,48,201302,263077,44],"class_list":["post-730468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-assault","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-durham-police","tag-laced","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730468","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=730468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}