{"id":814929,"date":"2026-07-20T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:11:10","slug":"man-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-underage-girl-in-oakville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814929\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with sexual assault of underage girl in Oakville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canaan \u2018Cane\u2019 Meister, 25, is facing sexual assault and sexual interference charges after allegedly assaulting a teenage girl from Oakville in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An Oakville man involved in youth hockey programs has been arrested and charged after an underage girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in 2025. Police believe there may be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haltonpolice.ca\/news-releases\/posts\/police-searching-for-additional-victims-in-sexual-assault-investigation\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.haltonpolice.ca\/news-releases\/posts\/police-searching-for-additional-victims-in-sexual-assault-investigation\/\">According to Halton Regional Police,<\/a> the suspect met the victim in Oakville in late 2025 and allegedly sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Sunday, officers arrested 25-year-old Canaan Meister. He was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of sexual interference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was held in custody pending a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Meister is currently involved in youth hockey programs in Oakville and Burlington and believe there may be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Halton Regional Police Child Abuse and Sexual Assault Unit at 905-825-4777, ext. 8970, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canaan \u2018Cane\u2019 Meister, 25, is facing sexual assault and sexual interference charges after allegedly assaulting a teenage girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-814929","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\/814929","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=814929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}