Two men have been charged after three teenage girls were sexually assaulted.
Winnipeg police began investigating the incidents in January. Sex crimes unit investigators determined a 32-year-old man contacted a girl online, arranged to meet and drove her to a home, where she was sexually assaulted during the first week of 2024.
On Jan. 9, the man and another, age 30, met with the same girl and took her to the Assiniboine Gordon Inn on Portage Avenue. Both men sexually assaulted the victim there, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Tuesday.
Police identified two suspects. The younger one turned himself in to officers at the downtown police headquarters on May 15. Ousama Alkhattab, 30, has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference.
Investigators determined the older suspect met with two girls in their mid-teens — one of whom he had befriended through a social-media platform — on Aug. 28. They drove to a place downtown, where they were sexually assaulted by two yet-to-be identified men. The assaults were reported to police.
Abdelraheem Khatab, 32, was arrested on the 400 block of Nathaniel Street on Thursday. He has been charged with two counts each of sexual assault and sexual interference and single counts of luring a person under 16 and supplying liquor to a minor.
Both men arrested were released on court orders prohibiting contact with people under 18.
The sex crimes unit is still investigating the incidents and searching for the two unidentified men. Police asked anyone who wants to speak with an investigator to contact the unit at 204-986-6245, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477 (TIPS) or online.
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