{"id":777109,"date":"2026-07-03T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777109\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:46:29","slug":"rideshare-driver-charged-in-connection-with-toronto-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777109\/","title":{"rendered":"Rideshare driver charged in connection with Toronto sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 48-year-old rideshare driver has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman following a drop-off in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Police said they responded to a call for sexual assault at around 1:20 p.m. on June 28 in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Danforth+Ave+%26+Broadview+Ave,+Toronto,+ON+M4K+1N1\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Danforth+Ave+%26+Broadview+Ave,+Toronto,+ON+M4K+1N1\/\">Danforth and Broadview avenues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police allege a female victim requested a ride through a car share application and the suspect sexually assaulted her before she got out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66337\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66337\/\">news release issued on Wednesday<\/a>, police say they arrested Brampton resident Nathaniel Ezema and charged him with sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charge has not been tested in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old rideshare driver has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman following a drop-off in Toronto.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-777109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777109","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=777109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}