{"id":823541,"date":"2026-07-24T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823541\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:44:11","slug":"toronto-music-teacher-charged-with-sex-assault-of-15-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823541\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto music teacher charged with sex assault of 15-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto music teacher has been charged in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old in York Region in 2022 and investigators believe there may be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/news\/man-charged-historical-sexual-assault-youth\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/news\/man-charged-historical-sexual-assault-youth\">news release<\/a>, York regional police say the investigation began on July 6 after the complainant came forward and reported she had been in a \u201csexual relationship\u201d with the suspect that began in 2022, when she was 15 years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police allege the suspect met the victim through a music studio where he was teaching in Markham. Investigators believe he may also teach music elsewhere in the Greater Toronto Area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On July 23, police arrested and charged 33-year-old Wylie Zi Hin Lam of Toronto with sexual interference, sexual exploitation and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say they have released the accused\u2019s photograph because they believe there may be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto music teacher has been charged in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-823541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823541","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=823541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}