{"id":912197,"date":"2026-09-28T00:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912197\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:34:27","slug":"brampton-police-appeal-after-child-approached-on-walk-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912197\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton police appeal after child approached on walk home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/bramptonist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-27-police-posting.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-27-police-posting-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Brampton police appeal illustration of an empty suburban Ontario sidewalk\" title=\"Brampton police appeal after child approached on walk home illustration\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Brampton police appeal asks witnesses to come forward after a child was approached while walking home near Flamingo Crescent and Forsythia Road. Police also want to hear from anyone who may have video recorded in the area at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peelpolice.ca\/news-feed\/posts\/public-assistance-sought-in-suspicious-person-investigation-in-brampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">September 26 release<\/a>, Peel Regional Police say the incident happened Wednesday, September 23, between 3:30 and 3:55 p.m. An unknown man approached the child from behind, and police describe a brief physical interaction. The child was able to disengage and leave. No physical injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Brampton police appeal seeks video and witnesses<\/p>\n<p>Police say the man was last seen walking east on Forsythia Road toward Folkstone Crescent. Their description is of a South Asian man aged 25 to 30, about six feet tall, with a slim build and straight, medium-length black hair reaching his ears. He wore a black cloth mask over the lower part of his face, a white T-shirt and long brown pants.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are seeking dashcam, doorbell-camera or other surveillance footage from the area during the relevant period. They also ask anyone who may have experienced a similar incident to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Information for the Brampton police appeal should go to the 21 Division Criminal Investigations Bureau at 905-453-2121, extension 2133. The release identifies the occurrence as PR260325470.<\/p>\n<p>The police release describes the investigation as ongoing. Follow Bramptonist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bramptonist.com\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">News coverage<\/a> for local updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brampton police appeal asks witnesses to come forward after a child was approached while walking home near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-912197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912197","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=912197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}