{"id":840087,"date":"2026-08-01T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840087\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:26:34","slug":"markham-nurse-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840087\/","title":{"rendered":"Markham nurse sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 31, 2026 at 3:51PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 31, 2026 at 1:04PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">York Regional Police say a nursing instructor in Markham has been charged with sexually assaulting a student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release issued Friday, police said the victim reported the incident after she and the accused attended home care visits as part of her training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the visits, police said, the suspect drove the victim to a \u201csecluded location\u201d and touched her for a sexual purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Armin Azizi-Mehr, 58, of Markham was charged with sexual assault following an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Azizi-Mehr works as a home care nurse and nurse preceptor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/cno-is-aware-of-sexual-assault-charge-against-rn-802319036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/cno-is-aware-of-sexual-assault-charge-against-rn-802319036.html\">The College of Nurses of Ontario said<\/a> it is aware of Azizi-Mehr\u2019s charges and that it takes the allegation \u201cvery seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cInvestigators are releasing his image as they believe there may be additional victims,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 1-866-876-5423 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 31, 2026 at 3:51PM EDT Published:\u00a0July 31, 2026 at 1:04PM EDT York Regional Police say a nursing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-840087","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\/840087","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=840087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}