Jacob Hoggard trial: Cross examination expected to continue for 2nd complainant
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 girl, 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 resort room.
She informed the court docket Hoggard raped her anally, vaginally and orally and at one level choked her so arduous she thought she may 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 beneath 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 cases.
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 might be recognized beneath a publication ban.
