The Crown presented in detail on Thursday morning the circumstances surrounding three allegations of a sexual nature pending against Jacob Hoggard since 2018. The trial of the 37-year-old Hedley band singer opened in Thursday in the Superior Court of Ontario.
Jacob Hoggard, who attended the hearings in a black suit, was charged with inappropriate sexual harassment in a minor and sexual assault causing bodily harm to both the teenage girl and an adult. old woman.
Prosecutor Kelly Slate explained to the jury the circumstances in which the singer met the two plaintiffs, who did not know each other. Their identity is protected under the publication ban.
Slate said Jacob Hoggard met the first complainant in Toronto in April 2016 at a Hedley concert at the Air Canada Arena when he was just 15 years old.
The teenager was present with his parents who admitted that their daughter was exchanging their phone number with him at a meeting with the group in the dressing rooms after the show.
He has been a fan of Hedley since he was 10the prosecutor recalled that the singer touched the young man’s butt in a photo shoot and tried to kiss him on the neck, but without success [les parents ne sont pas au fait de cet événement allégué, NDLR].
The young man gave her his home phone number backstage. Their communications will soon have a sexual tone.
First alleged pain
According to the prosecutor, they will exchange flattering text messages and suggestive pictures over the phone and in the application. Snapchat.
The singer tells her in particular that she is beautiful and she sees a future in her. But he was too young to consent to anything.continued with Me Slate.
The Crown says Jacob Hoggard arranged to see him again in September 2016. He flew him in a limo to the Toronto area [un interdit nous empêche de citer la ville de l’adolescente, NDLR].
The complainant was 16 years old then.
He expected to have lunch with the band members and visit Toronto, but was instead invited to a hotel room near the airport.said Me Slate.
The prosecutor says Jacob Hoggard forced her into bed and repeatedly raped her for a long timebury the head in the pillow.
She cried and was told to stophe added, adding that it spat at him and called his names.
Me Slate pointed out that the teenager called a friend when the singer went to get a towel in the bathroom and he pretended he needed to go back to work.
He had blood on his thighs, bruises on his back and legs as he left the hotelhe concludes.
The prosecutor added that the young man did not inform his mother until a few weeks later and the latter took him to the hospital. The teenager will never interact with the singer again.
Second attack allegedly
The Crown later showed jurors the circumstances of the second alleged attack.
Me Slate says the second complainant met Jacob Hoggard in Ottawa believing he met him on the street in November 2016. They exchanged their contact details and agreed to meet again in Toronto.
Arriving at the station in the metropolis, the woman, who was an adult, greeted him at a hotel. He knew full well that they would have sexhe says.
However, the prosecutor claimed that the meeting did not go ahead as planned and Jacob Hoggard dragged her to bed after kissing her.
She was raped, even by anal penetration, while she was spit on and insultedhe pointed out.
Me Slate makes sure that the complainant does not consent and he leaves the hotel after a few hours. Arriving home in Ottawa, he also realized he was bloody and had bruises on his body.
The Crown called its first witness for the prosecution: a clinical psychologist. The DD Lori Haskell explained the impact of such trauma on the human brain and on people who have been raped.
Initially, DD Haskell clarified that he did not know the two plaintiffs.
The trial continues.
Source: Radio-Canada
