Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to remove the name of the man charged as the charges were withdrawn by the court.
A 27-year-old former student and employee of York University has been charged in connection with four sexual assaults at the campus in less than two weeks.
Toronto police said the assaults occurred in the York Lanes and Vari Hall areas of the university, located at 4700 Keele St.
On March 3, a 28-year-old woman was approached by a man at the library around 8 p.m. Police said he started up a conversation with the woman and then began to follow her.
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When the woman attempted to walk away, police said the man sexually assaulted her and she was able to escape.
Two weeks later on St. Patrick’s Day, police said an 18-year-old woman was in the York Lanes shopping area of the school when a man began talking to the woman and followed her.
Police said the woman attempted to walk away, but the man sexually assaulted her and she fled the area. An hour and a half later, police said the same man then located the woman, spoke to her again and sexually assaulted her for a second time before she could escape.
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On Monday, police said a 20-year-old woman was walking towards Vari Hall when she was approached by a man who then sexually assaulted her and left the building.
The man was arrested Monday and charged with four counts of sexual assault. He was scheduled to appear in a Toronto court Thursday.
A spokesperson for York University confirmed to Global News in an e-mailed statement that the man was employed in a work-study program at the school in 2015 and is not currently enrolled as a student.
Police said they could not provide additional details on the incidents.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-3100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
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