Man charged in connection to decades-old sexual assault case in Saskatoon

A Saskatoon Police Service badged is stitched onto an officers’ uniform in Saskatoon, on Friday, May 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu

A man has been charged in connection to an alleged sexual assault case reported almost 25 years ago in Saskatoon.

In a news release Wednesday, the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) said in September 2001, officers were called to a home on the 800 block of Avenue E North, where a girl reported being the victim of a sexual assault.

A sexual assault kit collected evidence at the time.

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This month, a DNA match was made, and a 52-year-old man was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexual assault with a weapon, wearing a disguise during commission of an offence, uttering threats to cause death, and mischief.

No further details regarding the man’s identity were shared by police.

The accused made his first court appearance Wednesday morning.