Senior arrested for sexual assault on Guelph bus
A Guelph transit bus appears in a file photo. (CTV News Kitchener)
Guelph Police have arrested a man after a woman said she was sexually assaulted on a city bus.
A supervisor with Guelph Transit reported the incident just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. They said a woman in her 50s boarded the bus in the city’s south end and sat beside a man she didn’t know.
The report said the man touched her inappropriately twice before the driver intervened and forced the man to move. The man got off the bus a short time later.
Officers later located the 74-year-old man and charged him with sexual assault.
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