Former Durham Region police officer facing sex assault charges dating back to 2003

A former Durham Region police officer is facing a slew of sexual assault charges related to alleged incidents involving a teen girl more than two decades ago.

Ontario’s police watchdog said a Canada-wide warrant was issued for Kevin Seamons and the former officer was arrested by the Mounties in Alberta on Wednesday night.

He has since been released under several conditions, including a ban on communicating with the complainant, and is due in court in Oshawa on June 5, the Special Investigations Unit said in a statement.

Seamons is charged with six counts of sexual assault, one of sexual assault with a weapon, seven of sexual exploitation, six of breach of trust and one each of assault with a weapon and pointing a firearm. Those charges have not been tested in court. 

The SIU said the alleged offences took place in 2003 and the agency investigated them at the time, but then reopened the case in 2024 after the complainant came forward with new information.

The agency said it would not release any further details as the matter is now before the courts, while the Durham Regional Police Service declined to answer any questions about Seamons’s time in the force, saying only that he was no longer employed there.

However, records show Seamons was subjected to a disciplinary hearing after the SIU closed its initial investigation into the complainant’s allegations, resulting in his dismissal in 2006 after 17 years as a constable. 

Seamons pleaded guilty to 10 counts of professional misconduct, most of them related to the teen involved in the criminal case, documents from the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services show.

Those pleas related to actions such as repeatedly visiting her home and taking her in his cruiser without authorization, including when responding to police calls, the documents show.

The girl’s parents brought her to the police station for a talking-to in 2003 because they believed she had taken and used their credit card without permission, the documents show. Seamons was the officer who spoke to her, the records say.

“This initial contact appears to have given rise to an ongoing relationship with both (the girl) and her family,” court documents say.

Seamons challenged his dismissal, arguing there was nothing inappropriate about his relationship with the girl and that he was “in effect acting as a social worker or surrogate parent,” court documents show.

The records say he spent “a significant amount of his personal time” with her but never claimed overtime for it.

The Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services upheld the decision to fire Seamons, finding no error that would warrant interfering with the hearing officer’s ruling. 

“The sheer number of convictions is striking. Further, nine of these charges relate to conduct that occurred over a period of six months,” the panel wrote.

“The hearing officer concluded that what was in question was a deliberate course of behaviour and not isolated acts of human frailty, simple errors in judgment or mere failures to follow established procedures. This finding was certainly open to him.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 21, 2026.