$50,000 reward offered to help solve two sex assaults from ’90s

TORONTO, Ont. – Toronto police have posted a $50-thousand reward in two cold case sexual assaults linked to the same man.

The two women were attacked eight months apart in November of 1993 and July 1994.

At Police headquarters, one of the victims has spoken to reporters over speakerphone in the hope that it will help catch her attacker.

The victim was 19-years-old at the time of the attack.

She had been taking the streetcar home to Regent Park from her job at SkyDome when it short-turned, forcing her off at Church Street.

“I had the option of waiting at the bus stop where people would assume i was a prostitute, or I could just keep walking which is what I chose to do,” she explained.

At Dundas Street East and Parliament, she says a man with a knife dragged her under a parked tractor trailer in an alley, tore at her clothes and sexually assaulted her.  She said two men walked by but ignored her cries for help.

The victim, now 37, is married and has just had her third child but said life has not been easy.

“Trauma is something that you keep with you and that you have to work on yourself. Very little of it has to do with the perpetrator or the other person. If you feel the world is unsafe you will feel that way no matter where you are. That’s what I’m dealing with at the moment,” she said. “Even right now I can feel my anxiety coming back up. I can feel myself shaking.”

The same man is suspected of attacking a 46-year-old woman in her second floor apartment 8 months later.

Police artists have aged the original composite sketch with the hope that someone will recognize the suspect.

“I’m hoping that the 17 or 18 years that have gone by has helped to fray some of those loyalties people have for each other,” Detective Ali Ansari said.

Ansari is determined to solve the crimes.

“I want to be able to give closure to the victims and I want to bring the offender to justice.”

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