Halifax police are investigating a new allegation of a taxi driver sexually attacking a female passenger. “At this point the investigators are reaching out to multiple cab companies to determine who this driver may have been,” she said. Police reported seven alleged sexual assault cases involving Halifax cab drivers between 2015 and the summer of 2016, although one charge had been dropped at the request of the complainant. In July 2016, Dave Buffett, president of the Halifax Taxi Drivers Owners Association, said the city’s taxi industry was in crisis after four alleged sexual assaults by drivers in three months. The acquittal last March of a Halifax taxi driver accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated female passenger sparked national outrage.

Source: National Post December 29, 2017 22:18 UTC