{"id":781341,"date":"2026-07-05T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781341\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:20:45","slug":"toronto-man-accused-of-assaulting-multiple-women-on-public-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781341\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man accused of assaulting multiple women on public transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Toronto man who is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women in the downtown core was arrested and charged this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the assaults happened on public transit between the morning hours of 8 a.m. and noon on Thursday, July 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll victims are strangers to the accused,\u201d Toronto police wrote in a press release shared Saturday. \u201cThe victims did not sustain any physical injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have charged 30-year-old Ashraful Alam with five counts of sexual assault and one count of obstructing police.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe there may be more victims and investigators are appealing for victims and witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Alam is described as standing between five-foot-seven and five-foot-ten, with a medium build, black shaggy hair and a black beard.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the assaults, he was wearing a dark long sleeve shirt, beige shorts and dark Birkenstock-style sandals.<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" 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\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto man who is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women in the downtown core was arrested and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-781341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781341","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=781341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}