MANDEL: Psychiatrist says Hoggard may be sex addict but not a deviant
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Jacob Hoggard informed a psychiatrist he likes “mild slapping,” soiled speak and is aroused when he places his fingers round a associate’s neck with a “slight squeeze.”
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However Dr. Hy Bloom’s evaluation concluded the convicted rapist just isn’t a sexual deviant who will get off on forcing ladies into intercourse. As a substitute, he’s probably a intercourse addict whose life as an entitled pop star gave him quick access to keen companions throwing themselves at his ft — a lot in order that the previous Hedley frontman estimated he’s had 200 sexual companions in his 38 years, with about two-thirds of them being followers.
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Now that “his life as a star could be very probably over,” Bloom mentioned Hoggard is at a low threat to reoffend.
A jury convicted Hoggard in June of sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt in his violent assault on an Ottawa school scholar he’d met on Tinder and organized to fulfill in a Toronto resort in 2016. She testified that over a number of hours, the charming man she’d flirted with on-line become a monster who pressured anal and vaginal intercourse, slapped her, spit on her and choked her to the purpose she thought he would kill her.
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Hoggard was acquitted on two expenses referring to a teenage fan.
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On the final day of his sentencing listening to, Crown legal professional Jill Witkin and Kelly Slate urged Justice Gillian Roberts to provide little weight to Bloom’s report — since most of it’s based mostly on what Hoggard informed him — and impose a six to seven yr jail time period.
Notably, mentioned Slate, whereas Bloom spoke to Hoggard’s household and spouse, he didn’t communicate with any of his colleagues throughout his high-flying Hedley days, his two previous intimate companions or any of his many informal flings.
And like Hoggard, these closest to him put the blame on the followers who pursued him, and never him.
“As a result of he’s not acknowledging duty or any of the hurt he brought about, it’s the Crown’s place that he’s nonetheless a threat,” Slate mentioned.
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In line with the psychiatrist’s report, phallometric testing exhibits Hoggard isn’t aroused by coercive intercourse and one other check positioned him within the vary of “on a regular basis regular, non-psychopathic people.”
Hoggard described himself to Bloom as being a geeky class clown who was expelled in Grade 12. As soon as he gained fame at age 19 with Canadian Idol after which Hedley, the sexually adventurous philanderer with a “strong intercourse drive” mentioned ladies have been at all times pursuing him, even throwing their bras and keys at him at his live shows.
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“I felt I received what I wished they usually received what they wished,” Bloom quoted him as saying of his transactional sexual exploits along with his followers.
Hoggard was troubled by his incapability to stay trustworthy to a long-term associate, the psychiatrist wrote, and he was about to pursue therapy with a sexual dependancy counsellor earlier than he was charged.
However whereas he was promiscuous, Hoggard informed Bloom he by no means engaged in non-consensual intercourse and the sufferer lied about being raped as a result of she “felt rejected when no matter fantasy she had about being collectively didn’t play out.”
Because the troubled decide famous, Hoggard not solely exhibits no regret in Bloom’s report, however truly “doubles down” on his place.
“To me, components of it felt like he’s blaming (the sufferer) and he responds to her proof in fairly aggressive methods,” Roberts mentioned.
No matter he believes, his lawyer assured her, Hoggard is motivated to not discover himself in that place once more.
After a day spent dissecting his character and his threat as he watched the proceedings from his dwelling in Vancouver, it was lastly Hoggard’s alternative to handle the courtroom earlier than the decide retired to contemplate how lengthy he’ll spend behind bars.
“Thanks Your Honour, I’m going to move on that,” he mentioned.
Roberts is scheduled to ship her sentence on Oct. 20.
mmandel@postmedia.com