Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 QC
Aug 6, 2026
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Montreal masseuse on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting four clients
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MONTREAL NEWS
Montreal masseuse on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting four clients
One woman tells judge she felt she was sexually assaulted for about 50 minutes of the hour-long session in 2024.
A mug shot of Vitalie Moraru, 52, a masseuse charged with sexually assaulting four of his clients in Montreal. (Montreal police)
By
Paul Cherry
August 6, 2026 at 4:03 p.m.
One of four women who allege a Montreal massage therapist sexually abused them testified at his criminal trial Thursday that her session with the accused at a spa in Old Montreal was almost entirely a sexual assault.
The fo…
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