{"id":178405,"date":"2026-08-22T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178405\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:52:36","slug":"man-charged-after-winnipeg-police-allege-he-sexually-assaulted-4-more-teens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/178405\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after Winnipeg police allege he sexually assaulted 4 more teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 42-year-old man is charged with luring and sexually assaulting four teenage girls, in addition to similar charges involving two other teens that were laid earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In June, police got reports about two separate incidents involving four teens between November 2025 and January 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man communicated with the teens online and arranged to meet them and some of their friends, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a Friday news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both times, the man then picked the teens up and took them to a hotel, where they were given drugs and alcohol and sexually assaulted, police allege. Police in the counter-exploitation unit continued investigating until this month, when they identified a suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Daniel David Main was taken into custody Tuesday and charged with four counts each of sexual assault and sexual interference.\u00a0Main was also charged with two counts of luring a person under 16 by means of telecommunication and failing to comply with a release order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The arrest comes months after Main was <a data-ylk=\"slk:arrested for similar offences involving two other teens;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/men-arrested-sexual-assault-social-media-9.7090128\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">arrested for similar offences involving two other teens<\/a>. On Jan. 30, he was arrested on Paramount Road in Winnipeg after a police investigation that began early that month into a man inappropriately contacting the teens online under the username &#8220;Moon Beam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In that case, the teens went to a home on Sept. 8, after several weeks of communicating on social media, Winnipeg police said in February. There, police allege, he gave them drugs and alcohol and sexually assaulted them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Sept. 25, one of the teens in that case got sexually explicit images and video from the man through social media, police previously said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Main, who police previously said was from St. Francois Xavier, Man., was detained in custody on the most recent charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 42-year-old man is charged with luring and sexually assaulting four teenage girls, in addition to similar charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3443,4717,27558,84,3172],"class_list":["post-178405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-police-investigation","tag-sexually-assaulting","tag-sexually-explicit","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}