Police seek man for alleged foot-related sexual assaults

Police in Richmond Hill, Southern Ontario, Canada, are looking for a man who they say sexually assaulted a woman by licking her foot, before stealing her boot and sock – a day after he allegedly stole another woman’s shoe.

At around 3:45pm on Wednesday, police allege a man entered a tanning salon, asking a woman if he could see her shoe, “because he was shopping for a relative.” He apparently smelled the shoe and then fled with it, according to York Regional Police’s Special Victims Unit.



The following day at around 11am, the suspect entered a different tanning salon in Richmond Hill, and began asking a woman about her boots. “The suspect then grabbed the victim’s leg, removed her boot and sock and licked her foot without her consent,” police say. He then fled with her boot and sock. The victim was not physically injured.

The suspect is described as white and approximately 30 years old. Police say he has a medium build, weighs around 170 pounds, and is around 5’8 tall. He has short reddish-brown hair and was sporting a beard, a bomber jacket, black dress pants and brown leather boots. The suspect may be responsible for other similar incidents, police say.