An Ontario man who was free on bail on charges of sexually assaulting children has been arrested after he was allegedly caught sexually assaulting more children.
On Aug. 15, Windsor police announced that Qasim Sabi, 22, had been arrested in connection with two apparently random sexual assaults targeting a pair of boys, aged eight and 10, playing in a residential neighbourhood.
“The suspect allegedly attempted to kiss the 10-year-old boy, who was able to avoid the advance,” reads a police statement. “The suspect then reportedly kissed the eight-year-old boy on the cheek twice.”
This is the third time in three years that Sabi has been charged with a sex crime targeting children. In each of the previous instances, he was released with conditions, only to allegedly find more children to victimize.
In the most recent instance, which occurred at 10 p.m., Sabi appears to have been in direct defiance of a bail condition that required him to remain in his home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The conditions were in connection with a string of sex-crime charges laid against Sabi in May 2025.
Although the Windsor police did not detail the particulars of the May incident, it resulted in Sabi being charged with one count of sexual assault, one count of common assault and two counts of sexual interference.
The charge of sexual interference is laid in cases where the victim is a minor. According to the Criminal Code, it applies in cases where a person touches the body of someone under 16 years old “for a sexual purpose.”
Sabi was charged with those crimes while he was already on bail for an even earlier set of charges for allegedly victimizing a minor.
In 2023, when Sabi was 19, Windsor police named him in connection with a sex-crime investigation involving a 17-year-old victim.
“In early August 2023, the Windsor Police Major Crimes Unit initiated an investigation after receiving a report that a 17-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted by a male acquaintance on numerous occasions,” read the police statement at the time.
In addition to a charge of assault and sexual assault, police also charged the then 19-year-old Sabi with “failure to comply with a release order,” indicating that he allegedly sexually assaulted the victim while already on bail for an even earlier charge.
With the Aug. 15 incident involving the two boys, this makes three times that Sabi has been charged with victimizing a child after being released on bail from an earlier charge.
What’s more, at least two of the alleged crimes seem to have occurred in the immediate vicinity of Sabi’s home.
In the August 2023 case involving the 17-year-old victim, Sabi was arrested “in the 3400 block of Bloomfield Road.” The street is located in a neighbourhood roughly halfway between the Canadian approaches for the Ambassador Bridge and the newly opened Gordie Howe Bridge.
The incident involving the attack on the two boys also allegedly occurred “in the 3400 block of Bloomfield Road,” although police arrested Sabi two blocks away after tracking him with a K-9 unit.
“The suspect fled on foot but was apprehended by officers, with assistance of K-9 Officer Link, following a brief struggle,” they wrote.
Sabi’s experience is not atypical of accused sex offenders in Canada, with bail being the usual outcome even for offences involving children. Just four days before the alleged assault against the two boys, in fact, police in London, Ont., took the rare step of issuing a public safety order for an accused child sex offender granted bail.
Connor Bennett, 19, was charged with two counts relating to child sexual abuse materials but was released “after a contested bail hearing.” In the public safety alert, police said Bennett had been charged in connection with an investigation involving a male who had made threats “to harm, sexually assault, and kill a teenaged girl, known to him.”
“ Based on information obtained during the investigation, the London Police Service has identified concerns for public safety and is taking the additional step of notifying the community,” read a London police statement.
