TORONTO — Cross-examination is anticipated to proceed this afternoon for an Ottawa girl who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard.
The lady, who’s one in every of two complainants within the case, testified Tuesday that she agreed to fulfill the singer in Toronto to have intercourse in November 2016, however that she didn’t consent to what transpired in his lodge room.
She advised the courtroom Hoggard raped her anally, vaginally and orally and at one level choked her so laborious she thought she would possibly die.
Hoggard, the frontman for the band Hedley, has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt and one in every of sexual interference, a cost that pertains to the sexual touching of somebody below 16.
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An agreed assertion of info says he had a sexual encounter with every of the complainants on separate events within the fall of 2016. It’s agreed Hoggard organized transportation in each situations.
The opposite complainant, who was 16 on the time, has testified that Hoggard raped her vaginally and orally, and tried to take action anally, on Sept. 30, 2016.
Neither complainant could be recognized below a publication ban.
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