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Woman sexually assaulted in elevator at TTC station: police

A TTC sign is shown at a downtown Toronto subway stop on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy. ROY

A woman was sexually assaulted in an elevator at a Toronto subway station last week, police say.

Toronto police said a sexual assault was reported at Sherbourne Subway Station at 9:50 p.m. on Thursday.

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A woman exited a train at the station and a man followed her into an elevator, police said.

The man then sexually assaulted the woman in the elevator and he fled the station, police said.

After a Wednesday morning appeal for information, police arrested a 44-year-old man of no fixed address.

On Wednesday evening, investigators announced he had been charged with one count of sexual assault.

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