N.S. mass shooting inquiry hears killer exchanged denture work for sex
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HALIFAX — A report submitted to the inquiry investigating the April 2020 mass capturing in rural Nova Scotia says the gunman who killed 22 folks was identified to trade denture work for intercourse and to use marginalized girls.
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The report by members of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and the Ladies’s Authorized Schooling and Motion Fund particulars findings from conferences held within the Halifax space with survivors of Gabriel Wortman’s violence and others who interacted with the killer.
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The report says contributors in these conferences mentioned the gunman, who labored as a denturist, used his clinic in Dartmouth, N.S., to use African Nova Scotian girls andsex employees.
Individuals reported that Wortman bragged about offering denture work at a diminished value and would trade his providers for intercourse when folks couldn’t pay the complete value.
The report additionally says the killer was identified to make sexually suggestive feedback to marginalized sufferers who visited his clinic.
The contributors advised the report’s authors they didn’t really feel secure reporting the incidents of sexual violence or harassment to police due to earlier experiences during which marginalized folks weren’t believed.
