Police have arrested a 29-year-old man they allege sexually assaulted teenaged girls in west-end Toronto over the past six months.
Det. Dan Luff says the girls are 13 to 16 years old.
He alleges a man approached three girls on the street asking for directions before allegedly sexually assaulting them.
In one case, Luff says the man sexually assaulted a girl while his 11-month-old child was in the car.
Luff alleges the man also used social media to develop an online relationship with a 15-year-old girl who sent him sexually explicit photos that he used to coerce her to meet with him, at which point he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
Fathi Rashid, of Toronto, has been charged with four counts each of sexual assault, sexual interference, criminal harassment and one count of invitation to sexual touching and is expected to appear in court Wednesday.
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