{"id":81858,"date":"2025-08-19T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81858\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:50:04","slug":"toronto-police-seek-publics-help-identifying-family-of-elderly-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81858\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police seek public’s help identifying family of elderly woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto police are asking for the public\u2019s assistance in locating the family of an elderly woman who was found early Tuesday morning in the city\u2019s west end.<\/p>\n

The woman, identified only as Maria, was discovered around 4 a.m. on Aug. 19 near Turner Road and Davenport Road. Police believe she is approximately 88 years old.<\/p>\n

According to investigators<\/a>, Maria is unable to recall her home address or provide contact information for any family members or close acquaintances. Officers say she primarily speaks Portuguese.<\/p>\n

Maria is described as being between five feet and five-foot-two feet two inches tall, with a slim build, short grey hair, and blue eyes. At the time she was found, she was wearing a black cardigan sweater, black pants, and grey slippers.<\/p>\n

Police have released an image of Maria in hopes that someone may recognize her and help reconnect her with loved ones.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Toronto Police Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are asking for the public\u2019s assistance in locating the family of an elderly woman who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-81858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81858","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=81858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}