{"id":87034,"date":"2025-08-21T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:19:07","slug":"doctor-charges-with-sexual-assault-in-cumberland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87034\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor charges with sexual assault in Cumberland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cumberland County District RCMP say they have <a href=\"https:\/\/rcmp.ca\/en\/nova-scotia\/news\/2025\/08\/cumberland-county-district-rcmp-charge-one-man-after-sexual-assault-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">charged a doctor with sexual assault and believe there may be additional victims.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say they responded to a report in May of a sexual assault involving a doctor at Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre (CRHCC ) in Upper Nappan.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the assault took place in January during an assessment at the CRHCC emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Dr. Sanjeev Sirpal was arrested Aug. 14 and charged with sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on conditions pending a first court appearance scheduled for Nov. 15 at an Amherst provincial court.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe there may be additional victims in Nova Scotia or other places where Sirpal has practised, including Quebec and New Brunswick, where he is now employed.<\/p>\n<p>Cumberland County District RCMP is encouraging anyone who may be a survivor to come forward by contacting local police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cumberland County District RCMP say they have charged a doctor with sexual assault and believe there may be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-87034","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\/87034","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=87034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}