Jacob Hoggard’s accuser showed sexual interest in him, defense says

On the last day of its cross-examination, the defense tried to show on Monday that the plaintiff had started a romantic relationship with her client when she was 15 and that she hoped to go further after her sixteenth birthday by sleeping with him.

Jacob Hoggard’s attorney, Megan Savard, says she’s convinced the woman wanted to sleep with him a rock starbecause she had been in love with him since preteen.

The complainant alleges that she was raped on September 30, 2016 in a hotel in Mississauga, where the singer had invited her to have lunch with the members of the Hedley group and to visit Toronto afterwards.

She adds that he also pinched her buttocks and tried to kiss her neck, but without success, after a concert at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on April 29, 2016.

Beginning of romantic relationship

Me Savard concedes that their relationship was platonic before this show in April, but then became romantic before taking a sexual tangent in the summer of the same year.

The complainant acknowledges that Jacob Hoggard did ask her her birthday that spring and that she told him that she was still 15, but would soon be 16 in June.

I don’t remember if he asked me immediately after the concert, but he never asked me to lie about my age.she says.

However, she asserts that the singer has crossed the line by acting in this way, because she had felt uncomfortable in front of her friends. But not to the point of stopping to see itshe says.

She explains that she didn’t want to make the situation more difficult, especially since she needed him to drive them home after the concert at the Scotiabank Arena.

Yeah, I could have told him what he did was wrong and never to do it again, but I didn’t.she admits, answering Me Savard’s question.

The young woman, however, categorically rejects the idea that she would have solicited a sexual relationship by agreeing to visit him in Toronto in September of the same year.

There was no way we were having sex when he invited me to Torontoshe said defensively.

She admits that she gave an alibi to her mother who did not want her daughter to go alone to the metropolis to meet Jacob Hoggard there.

For the defense, a rape would have quickly reconciled her with her mother for having disobeyed her that day.

My mother would have been angry if she had known that I had agreed to meet him in a hotel if we had consensual sexshe admits.

She explains that she concocted an alibi with her best friend by taking care to take pictures of them in a shopping center to prove to her mother that they had spent the day there together.

Beginning of intimate relationship

Me Savard recalls that the complainant and the singer had exchanged during the summer messages of a sexual nature which clearly show a desire on their part to sleep together after having started a romantic relationship 5 months later after a concert.

It’s possible that I expressed an interest in having sex with him, but that has nothing to do with a plan to have sex at the hotel that day.explains the complainant.

The young woman adds that the singer’s sexual messages in the summer were sometimes ambiguous, so she took the initiative to show them to her older cousin who is more experienced than her in terms of relationships.

I wanted to make sure that I understood his intentions, because his texts-messages were sometimes subject to interpretation and I did not understand the meaning of certain words.she says.

She assures that her cousin confirmed to her that the expressions had a more romantic than sexual connotation and that she therefore suggested ways to respond to her.

She does not, however, remember her answer to him at the time about his insinuations.

The complainant also denies hiding the truth from the jury as the defense suggests. I never gave him my consent in all our exchangesshe says.

She adds that she thought he would respect her decision not to sleep with him, because he had told her in the past to always trust her.

I never told her that we were going to have sex and that I wanted us to do this or that.she retorts.

If I had noticed warning signs in his messages about a sexual relationship, I would have ended our exchangesshe continues.

She also acknowledges that the name of the accused does not appear in the list of his interlocutors on Snapchat to prevent his friends from questioning the fact that she had a relationship with the singer on the social network.

The complainant assures that she did not go to her hotel to sleep with the accused. It hadn’t even been mentioned in our communications in the limo he had sent to me that morning.she says.

Alleged sexual assault

Me Savard also questioned the explicit details of the complainant when she recounted the rape of which she claims to be a victim.

She wonders, for example, how Jacob Hoggard was able to undo the laces of the complainant’s shoes while forcibly keeping her on the bed or without her being able to push him away to flee.

She also questions the fact that the woman has bit the penis of her client as she claimed, because such a bite did not deter Jacob Hoggard to continue to control it with all its weight on the bed.

Me Savard specifies that he is also physically impossible for a man to ejaculate 4 times in 2 hours. What you are saying never happened.continues the lawyer.

The young woman said that the singer hadn’t used a condom and that he had cummed on her 4 times and maybe more inside her and that’s why she had been in the hospital with her mother for tests.

There was only one ejaculation after consensual sexsays Me Savard. No, he raped mereplies the complainant tit for tat.

The lawyer further reminds the jury that the complainant waited 4 or 5 minutes before getting dressed after the alleged rape, that she did not call 911 or her family and that no one heard her screaming in the room. room.

He had buried my head in the pillows so that no one could hear meshe replies.

Me Savard adds that the teenager waited for her client to bring a limousine to take her home and that he even accompanied her to the hotel lobby.

In this regard, the complainant confirms that the limousine had been ordered in her name and not under the pseudonym that she had used on the outward journey with the same driver.

No hasty departure

The young woman admits that Jacob Hoggard did not try to ignore her or hide her from public view in the hotel lobby, but was trying to catch up to her when she rushed towards the exit.

Me Savard adds that the plaintiff also contradicted herself by saying at trial that she was able to walk from the bedroom to the sidewalk of the hotel where the limousine driver was waiting for her, whereas she had said the contrary in his statement to the police station on March 6, 2018.

I could walk, but it was painful, I didn’t get myself straightened out before I left the room, so my make-up and hair was undone, I quickly wiped his cum off my cheek.

The lawyer doubts that the woman was so unpresentable, since no one at the hotel stopped her to ask if she was okay.

You were angry and humiliated, not because you had been raped, but because he asked you to leave the hotel earlier than expected that day, because he had to get ready for a concertsaid the lawyer.

The complainant replies that she did not know that he was singing that evening, but that she was afraid of him and that she was crying because he had hurt her. The sex was not consensual at all, it was rapeshe repeats.

The cross-examination also made it possible to learn that the complainant was in the summer of 2016 in a serious but intermittent romantic relationship with a boy who attended the same high school as her.

The young man, who is two years older than her, knew nothing of her relationship with the singer of the group Hedley.

The young woman admits that she had failed to mention this relationship to the police when she filed a complaint against the singer. She maintains that he was a great comfort to her, even though she refrained from telling him that she had been raped.

He would have been understanding and supportive if I had told him., she says. She admits, however, that the young man would have been upset if she had had a consensual sexual relationship with the singer.

The trial continues tomorrow with the testimony of plaintiff number two.