{"id":925743,"date":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925743\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","slug":"main-station-sex-assault-oshawa-man-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925743\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Station sex assault: Oshawa man charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man from Oshawa has been charged with sexual assault following an incident late last month on the TTC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened on Sept. 30 at Main Subway Station, on Line 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/67069\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/67069\/\">Toronto police say<\/a> they responded to a call for a sexual assault there just after 3 p.m. that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say a female passenger exited an eastbound train and proceeded to the mezzanine level of the station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man then came up behind her and sexually assaulted her before fleeing the area on foot, they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Thursday, Paul-James Cote, 25, of Oshawa, turned himself in to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was arrested and charged with sexual assault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The allegation has not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The accused is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 19. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-5500 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Oshawa has been charged with sexual assault following an incident late last month on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-925743","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\/925743","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=925743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}