Alberta RCMP want to talk to a person of interest who might have information about a sexual assault in Fort Saskatchewan on June 5.

A protest that began in a west Edmonton neighbourhood on Saturday to voice opposition to the bail release of a man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl shows no signs of coming to an end.

Two days after issuing a warning to the public about a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young girl getting released on bail, the Edmonton Police Service issued a new warning Friday night aimed at anyone looking to harm the man.

The family of an eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in west Edmonton this winter is "devastated by the court's decision" after the man charged in the case was released on bail.

Police issued a warning to the public on Wednesday night after they say the man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in west Edmonton three months ago is back in the community.

Lowney is accused of befriending the girl online, arranging to meet her and sexually assaulting her.

While such cases are rare and successfully raising an intoxication defence would be difficult, critics argued it had undermined a measure aimed at protecting women from sexual violence.

A court ruling allowing people accused ofsexual assault or other violent crimes to argue they were so intoxicated they didn't know what they were doing has angered women's-rights activists but civil libertarians call the criticism unwarranted.

A Toronto judge says a former bar owner and his manager who were convicted in a violent, hours-long sexual assault saw women as "disposable instruments" for their sexual gratification.

Halton Regional police's child abuse sexual assault unit says the 53-year-old male officer was arrested and charged Monday.