TORONTO -
Warning: This story accommodates disturbing allegations.
An Ottawa lady informed a Toronto courtroom Tuesday that Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard choked her laborious sufficient to make her worry for her life as he sexually assaulted her in his lodge room greater than 5 years in the past.
The lady, who's the second complainant in Hoggard's intercourse assault trial, testified that she agreed to satisfy the singer in Toronto in November 2016, almost two weeks after the 2 of them crossed paths on the relationship app Tinder.
The lady stated she knew they had been assembly as much as have intercourse, however that Hoggard raped her anally, vaginally and orally, repeatedly slapping her and spitting in her mouth. He referred to as her a pig and a slut, and made “some type of pig noise” at her, she stated. He did not use a condom, she stated.
At one level, Hoggard dragged her up and about and into the toilet by her legs, she stated. He sat on her chest on the tile flooring and stated he would urinate on her, then requested her to urinate on him, she stated. She refused and he did not undergo with it, she stated.
The lady testified that at one other level, Hoggard choked her laborious sufficient that she could not breathe.
“I assumed he would possibly kill me,” she testified, including she was nervous nobody would know the place she was.
Hoggard, the frontman for the band Hedley, has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt and certainly one of sexual interference, a cost that pertains to the sexual touching of somebody beneath 16.
An agreed assertion of information says he had a sexual encounter with every of the complainants after they got here to his lodge on separate events within the fall of 2016. Neither lady will be recognized beneath a publication ban.
The complainant testifying Tuesday, who's now in her late 20s, recalled getting up early to take the practice to Toronto on Nov. 22, 2016 - it is an agreed truth within the case that Hoggard purchased the ticket - and going to satisfy him on the Thompson Lodge.
He got here right down to fetch her from the foyer and so they went as much as a room collectively, and Hoggard informed her his common room wasn't prepared but, she stated.
As soon as inside, he pushed her up in opposition to the wall and aggressively tried to kiss her, the girl testified. She resisted, and Hoggard appeared offended, telling her she might go house, she stated. She thought he was “impolite,” however she did not have wherever else to go, she stated.
Hoggard was consuming one thing and informed her it was “lean,” she stated. He appeared excessive and seemed to be slurring a bit, she stated.
Ultimately there was a knock on the door and somebody informed them Hoggard's room was prepared, she testified. Hoggard went first and informed her to return in after him, which she did, she stated.
“That is when he pushed me on the mattress and raped me,” she stated, tearing up on the stand.
The lady testified that Hoggard was performing “like a psychopath” through the encounter and that she was afraid of him. “His eyes had been completely terrifying,” she stated.
She stated it was like Hoggard had change into “a unique individual,” noting he had been good in all their conversations earlier than that day. She would not have gone to satisfy him had she anticipated him to behave this fashion, she stated.
Hoggard took her cellphone sooner or later and put it within the bedside desk, telling her girls had been at all times taking his image and posting it on-line, she stated. She received it again about an hour earlier than leaving the lodge, she stated.
He took a number of showers over the course of the encounter, she stated. Throughout certainly one of his showers, the girl informed him she was bleeding vaginally and anally, however he did not reply, she stated. He additionally ordered room service on one event, and took a cellphone name, she stated.
Afterwards, Hoggard referred to as her a taxi and he or she went to a Tim Hortons close to the practice station to attend for her practice again to Ottawa, she informed the courtroom. She felt “numb,” she stated.
Hoggard despatched her a message whereas she was within the taxi, saying it had been a beautiful time and he could not wait to see her once more, she stated. The lady stated she felt “very confused and disgusted” after receiving his message.
“He is aware of what he did and I do not know why he would say that after doing that to somebody,” she stated.
After speaking to her buddies the following day, the girl stated she texted Hoggard, telling him he had raped her. He replied inside hours, saying it had been consensual, she stated. The message sounded “very correct” and never how he normally talked, she testified.
She requested him to speak on the cellphone, wanting an apology, she stated. They did discuss on the cellphone briefly however he did not apologize, and so they by no means spoke after that, she stated, including she believed he had blocked her quantity.
The lady stated she by no means deliberate to inform anybody what occurred, other than just a few shut buddies, however she did go to the physician 5 or 6 days after the incident as a result of she was nervous there was a tear in her vagina.
“I did not assume that anybody would consider me, as a result of I went there considering that we might have consensual intercourse and I received raped as a substitute,” she stated.
In 2018, she did an nameless interview with the CBC and later went to police, she stated.
Throughout cross-examination, the defence advised Hoggard did not stop the girl from leaving at any level and, in truth, left her alone on a number of events whereas he showered.
“When he was raping me he was stopping me from leaving the room,” the girl replied.
Defence lawyer Megan Savard additionally advised the girl had been anticipating to attend an occasion with Hoggard that day and was upset when he as a substitute informed her to depart the lodge. She pointed to the truth that the girl had introduced a change of garments and a few make-up.
The lady stated she introduced garments and make-up along with her “on a regular basis” and whereas she believed Hoggard had an occasion that day, she had not anticipated to go together with him.
The opposite complainant, who was 16 on the time, has testified that Hoggard repeatedly raped her vaginally and orally, and tried to take action anally, on Sept. 30, 2016.
She additionally testified the singer groped her backstage after a present in Toronto in April 2016. Defence legal professionals have advised the alleged groping didn't occur.
They've additionally advised the 2 of them had consensual intercourse and the younger lady made up a “rape story” as a result of she was embarrassed about being “used” by a rock star for whom she had developed romantic emotions.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Might 10, 2022.
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