Singer Jacob Hoggard’s defense destroys 2nd plaintiff who accuses him of rape

The 37-year-old musician is accused of inappropriate sexual contact with a minor and sexual assault causing injury against the same teenager and the adult in question who has been testifying for two days at his trial.

The artist’s lawyer, Megan Savard, was ruthless and more aggressive than the day before against the 29-year-old woman whose identity is protected by a publication ban.

Me Savard accuses her of concocting a whole story to win the sympathy of the jury about a brief 30-second phone call she had with the accused two days after the November 22, 2016 meeting, because she wanted an apology and to remind him that he had raped her.

The complainant had admitted on the witness stand on Tuesday that they had agreed to sleep together before arriving by train in the metropolis, but without knowing that the artist was fond of rough sex. She had said that he never cared about her afterward in their communications.

The defense of the singer, who nevertheless ensures that their sexual relations were consenting, seriously disputed the content of the remarks of the woman on the telephone.

A compromising call

She therefore had the court hear the appeal, which actually lasted 15 minutes and in which we heard the plaintiff demand an apology from the musician for having been aggressive in bed with her in the hotel room in Toronto.

She will never pronounce on the telephone the word rape as she had done in a text message just before the call.

We also hear the singer speaking to her calmly, explaining that he had been surprised by the text in question and in which she confronted him about their meeting at the hotel.

He affirms that [s]our message came out of nowhere and that he thought they had rather had good time together.

Not exactlyshe replies, stating that she has been in pain since their meeting.

The woman who is upset is explaining to him that she feels humiliated, because she will have to consult a doctor for a vaginal laceration.

The defense tells her that in the end she never needed stitches, because she had no laceration.

She admits on the stand that she lied to Jacob Hoggard during the call about the stitches and that she was contemplating the idea of ​​calling a lawyer to force him to apologize to her.

I was trying to get him to admit what he had done to me and to acknowledge the seriousness of the harm he had caused me.she says.

She also confesses that she made him believe that she was working in a law firm at the time with the sole purpose of scaring him, but that was not the case.

Accusation of revenge

Hearing her voice again on the telephone, the complainant interrupted herself twice, overwhelmed with emotion. The judge suggested that he adjourn the hearing to resume, to no avail.

Between two interruptions of the audio tape, the complainant explains that she does not in fact remember very well the content of this call, because she had put herself in survival to forget what had happened to him.

The woman also rejects Me Savard’s allegations that she was seeking revenge on her client, that she was threatening him with the services of a lawyer and that she was going to denounce him in the public square for what he he had been subjected to, in particular for anal rape.

You were threatening him, because a rock star wasn’t interested in you anymore.asks the lawyer. The complainant replied in the negative and rejected the idea that Jacob Hoggard had abandoned her for another woman.

Repartee of the singer

We will never hear Jacob Hoggard apologize on the phone. On the contrary, hearing the irritated woman, he worries about her health, because he says he appreciates her.

He wants to end the conversation, however, because his phone’s batteries are dead and he’s with a friend who is going through an urgent family situation.

The woman tells him on the phone that she doesn’t believe it and that he is careful to choose his words carefully to describe what happened between them in order to protect himself against a possible lawsuit.

She also admits to the court that she did contact Jacob Hoggard’s wife at the time on Instagram (they weren’t married yet, editor’s note), to ask her if the singer had subjected her to the same thing.

She confided in me that he had been violent with other women, but not with her, and suggested that I go to the police and see a doctor in case he gave me herpes.she says.

The defense then cites the plaintiff’s statement to the police station in March 2018 in which the singer’s wife had only told him that he had not been nice to certain women.

Me Savard accuses her of having sought to control her client, because he was rich and famous and that is the real reason why she was asking him for an apology. It’s wrongshe answers.

CBC television interview

The lawyer then attacks the complainant about an interview with CBC that she granted on condition of anonymity. You used this platform to denounce my client on televisionshe says.

The woman replies that she wanted Jacob Hoggard to answer for her actions and only wanted to protect other women from a man she calls a sexual predator.

She had also told the jury the day before that she had begged her to stop when he was raping her on the bed.

However, in the excerpt from the CBC interview that Me Savard presented to the court, we hear the plaintiff rather tell the journalist that she did not say anything to the singer, because she didn’t know what to say to him.

The woman assures the bar that we will hear her later in the course of the interview saying that she had indeed told him to stop hurting him.

She also admits that she called the organizers of the event anonymously. We Day in Ottawa to warn them that she had been assaulted by one of the participants in the show without naming him.

She further categorically rejects the idea that she was seeking, through this interview, to become the leader of the movement #MeToo as the CBC reporter had promised.

She further states that she does not recall having celebrated in an Ottawa restaurant the public opprobrium of the artist following the broadcast of the report on February 25, 2018.

If I said it, it sure wasn’t a celebrationshe said, laughing.

The complainant claims that she also never told her friend B. that she had found the singer awesome after he kissed her without warning at the start of their meeting at the hotel when she had said earlier in her testimony that she had found him rude.

Me Savard also wonders about the fact that the complainant stayed at the hotel after this unsolicited kiss to have sex despite everything instead of leaving the hotel when her client had even told her that nothing was wrong. forced him to stay in his room.

The way he kissed you before you pushed him away is aggression on its own, didn’t you know that?asks the lawyer. No, I didn’t know that at the timeshe answers.

The cross-examination will end on Friday. Thursday is set aside for contentious issues that have arisen over the past two days of oral argument.