{"id":780211,"date":"2026-07-04T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780211\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:43:08","slug":"toronto-ttc-man-charged-after-sexual-assaults-on-5-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780211\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto TTC: Man charged after sexual assaults on 5 women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto man is facing multiple sexual assault charges after police say he sexually assaulted five women while aboard public transit in the city\u2019s downtown core earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66352\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66352\/\">news release<\/a>, police say officers responded to a sexual assault call on Thursday, July 2, at approximately 1 p.m. in downtown Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators allege the accused sexually assaulted multiple adult female victims between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say all of the victims were strangers to the accused and none suffered physical injuries. It is also alleged the accused obstructed officers while they were performing their duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a result, 30-year-old Ashraful Alam, of Toronto, has been charged with five counts of sexual assault and one count of obstruct peace officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He appeared in court at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police describe the accused as standing between five-foot-seven and five-foot-ten with a medium build, black shaggy hair and a black beard. At the time of the alleged incidents, they say he was wearing a dark long-sleeve shirt, beige shorts and dark Birkenstock-style sandals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators believe there may be additional victims and are asking anyone with information, or anyone who believes they may have been victimized, to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto man is facing multiple sexual assault charges after police say he sexually assaulted five women while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-780211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780211","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=780211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}