A woman is recovering after what Vancouver police call a violent assault in a Stanley Park bathroom on Monday morning.
Police said the woman was attacked in the women’s changing room near the Second Beach pool.
Police were called just before 11 a.m. after someone saw a suspicious man enter the changing room. When officers arrived, they found the woman, who is in her 40s and had been robbed and violently assaulted.
She was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Hartley Ronald Duckhorn, 35, was arrested nearby, police said.
He is charged with assault by choking, unlawful confinement, sexual assault with a weapon, robbery and uttering threat to cause death or bodily harm
He remains in custody pending a bail hearing, police confirmed.
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