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North Vancouver RCMP say a volleyball coach has been charged following an investigation into multiple sexual assault complaints.<\/p>\n
Police said Thursday that Iraj Mozaffari has been charged with three counts of sexual interference of a person under 16, two counts of touching a young person for sexual purpose and five counts of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
Police said the offences are alleged to have occurred between January 2016 and December 2024, when a report was first made to the North Vancouver RCMP and an investigation was launched.<\/p>\n
Mozaffari was arrested in April of last year and granted conditional release while police conducted their investigation.<\/p>\n
RCMP would not confirm whether those conditions included a ban on coaching.<\/p>\n
Videos posted to the Toop O Toor Volleyball Club’s Instagram page in the months since Mozaffari’s arrest show him coaching and interacting with young members, though it’s unclear when the videos were filmed.<\/p>\n
Just two weeks ago a video featuring Mozaffari was uploaded advertising the club’s summer camp.<\/p>\n
A publication ban is in place to protect the identities of the five people who made the allegations.<\/p>\n
At a press conference on Thursday, North Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Mansoor Sahak said the news would be upsetting for members of the community.<\/p>\n
“We would like to thank those that came forward to provide statements,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Without their courage, we would not be in the position we are in today.”<\/p>\n
He urged anyone who may be a victim to reach out for support.<\/p>\n
“We will listen, we will take a statement from you and we will do everything we can within our powers to support you,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-777199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777199","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=777199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}