MANDEL: She idolized Hedley singer, until he allegedly raped her at 16
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She suspected Jacob Hoggard could attempt to kiss her once they met up in Toronto on her PA day Sept. 30, 2016, however the 16-year-old, flush with the naive confidence of youth, was certain he’d respect her if she stated no.
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However the particular person she met that day was not the identical light, sort pop rock musician who’d been romancing her for six months in loving texts and Snapchats and who had known as to want her a cheerful sixteenth birthday, she stated.
This man was a “monster,” she alleged Friday.
In harrowing testimony, the poised younger girl described a brutal sexual assault that she claims occurred on the Toronto airport Sheraton lodge over a number of hours the place the Hedley frontman, reeking of weed and cigarettes, ignored her cries to cease, known as her a “soiled whore,” spit in her mouth, slapped her face and repeatedly raped her — leaving her bleeding and bruised.
Hoggard, 37, listened with little expression.
He’s pleaded not responsible to sexual interference of the woman when she was 15 and to sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt. He’s additionally pleaded not responsible to sexually assaulting a second girl just a few months later. Their identities are lined beneath a publication ban.
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An agreed assertion of details says Hoggard had a “sexual encounter” with the complainants once they got here to his lodge — suggesting it was consensual.
“I’m crying and I’m telling him to cease, that hurts. No, I don’t need to do that. And he’s simply persevering with going, he’s not responding,” recalled the younger girl, who didn’t go to police till 2018.
“He’s saying ‘You’re mine now, your p—y’s mine now, you soiled little whore, you slut, you want this. Yeah, that is what you deserve.’”
She then paused in her testimony, her voice breaking as she fought again tears.
“Sorry,” she continued. “He’s saying all this stuff and I’m laying there, crying on my again ,and telling him to cease. And he wouldn’t cease.”
She allegedly tried repeatedly to push him off however he held her down.
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“I simply sort of shut down,” she wept. “I can’t battle this. I’m too weak in comparison with him. I can’t bodily battle him off to get him off of me. So it was simply, ‘Okay, I simply have to survive on this second. That is going to occur.’”
She testified that she continued to inform him to cease however her focus turned survival.
“I simply wanted to get out of that lodge room on the finish of it,” she stated. “For me, in that second, to give you the option get by it, I simply needed to shut myself down mentally.”
At one level, she alleged, Hoggard climbed on high of her and demanded she acknowledge that she was his. She refused to reply.
“He slapped me throughout the face and he goes ‘Who’s p—y is that this?’ And once more, I don’t reply and he spits in my face and says, ‘You’re mine now.’”
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Hoggard then wrenched her mouth open and spat into it, she alleged.
“I spat it again at him and he slaps me throughout the face once more after that, opens my mouth once more and spits again into my mouth.”
Throughout the two-hour assault, she claims Hoggard flipped her on to her abdomen and held her head down into the pillow in order that she may barely breathe. She advised the jury he compelled her to carry out oral intercourse and tried unsuccessfully to rape her anally.
She thought she was assembly him at his lodge to go for lunch and spend a day in town with the singer she’d had a crush on from the time she was eight.
“This particular person is totally bipolar and reverse of what I knew him to be,” she testified. “This one that makes you consider this fairytale about love and romance and softness and gentleness to this monster of a human who has no compassion, no empathy, is vulgar and aggressive in each his wording and in his bodily actions.”
When Hoggard lastly went to the lavatory, she bought her cellphone, texted a girlfriend and advised her to name and faux she wanted to come back in early to work. He known as for a automobile and slowly started turning again into the particular person she knew, she stated, telling the teenager how comfortable he was that she got here and he couldn’t wait to see her once more.
“Who’re you?” she remembered pondering. “I by no means need to communicate to you once more. You’re doubtlessly loopy that you just’re pondering that I’m seeing you once more.”
Cross-examination, which bought underway Friday afternoon, continues Monday.
mmandel@postmedia.com
