{"id":139616,"date":"2026-03-16T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139616\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:34:16","slug":"police-investigating-if-woman-was-sexually-assaulted-on-popular-trail-in-lower-merion-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139616\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating if woman was sexually assaulted on popular trail in Lower Merion: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOWER MERION TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County are asking for the public&#8217;s help as they continue to investigate what happened to a woman who was found injured on a popular trail two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police responding to a call from a passing jogger found an <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/lower-merion-cynwyd-heritage-trail-woman-injured-found-along\/14064174\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">injured woman along the Cynwyd Heritage Trail<\/a> in Lower Merion, Montgomery County early on the morning of Tuesday, November 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers said they found the 42-year-old woman near the Manayunk Trail Bridge at about 5:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said she was suffering from injuries to her head and body, along with exposure to the cold air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The woman was taken to Lankenau Hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Since then, detectives have been working to investigate the circumstances of her condition and the cause of her injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A source now confirms to Action News they are investigating whether the woman was sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At this time, the source says police are awaiting test results, and they are working to determine where exactly the possible assault happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone who has information about the incident is asked to call Lower Merion Police at 610-649-1000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County are asking for the public&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64048,64045,64044,183,185,184,186,64046,29,64047,36276],"class_list":["post-139616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-64048","tag-cynwyd-heritage-trail","tag-found-on-trail","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-manayunk-trail-bridge","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-possible-assault","tag-woman-injured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}