Jacob Hoggard’s first alleged victim confronted singer Hedley while on the witness stand at his trial on Thursday afternoon. The alleged facts occurred from April to November 2016 in the Toronto area.
Jacob Hoggard was charged with inappropriate sexual interference with a minor and sexual assault causing harm against both the teenager and an adult.
The identity of the first woman, who is now 21 years old, is protected under the publication ban, as well as the municipality where she came from.
From the very beginning, the plaintiff had already admitted that he fell in love with Jacob Hoggard and that he had been following the music group since he was 10 years old. I kept a crush on him when I was younghe says.
He said he has attended a dozen of its concerts and has fond memories of his first show at Kirkland Lake in 2013.
I was 12 years old, I went there with my parents, I was enthusiastic, I warned all my companions.he recalls, adding that he had even met the singer and had been photographed by his parents in his company.
This will also have the effect of the first concert on the teenager so he will start collecting souvenirs such as show tickets and t-shirts signed by the effigy of the group.
The girl explained that her parents had earlier agreed to take the accused’s phone number so that it could possibly see the group again at other concerts.
He offered us a pass to see them backstagehe continued.
The group will meet again with the complainant and her parents at a concert in Toronto. Hedley’s drummer saw that I was wearing a band t-shirt and invited us to their hotelhe pointed out.
The Crown is projecting the screen for the jury’s preservation of the cheerful photo of the teenager and the group with or without his parents and other memories.
The girl explained that she had succeeded late 2015 or early 2016 find Jacob Hoggard’s number on his mother’s cell phone.
The messages to Jacob Hoggard remained harmless until then. In this respect, he qualifies in his act as 15 year old teenage stupidity.
I thought it would be nice if he had a personal numberhe continued, pointing out, however, that it was Jacob Hoggard who insisted that they could converse in private.
He admitted that they started exchanging flattering text messages and intimate pictures without his parents ’knowledge of the application. Snapchat.
He told me he thought I was beautiful and he saw our future togetherhe recalled.
She explained that she agreed to send him pictures of herself nude or nude. However, I am afraid that someone around him will discover them, despite his promise that it will not happen.he says.
To hear the complainant, Jacob Hoggard sent her many compliments, telling her that he loved her, that he wanted to have a child from her and that he wanted to travel and see the world with her.
I felt a little manipulation on his parthe admits.
However, their exchanges will lead to the first inappropriate interactions at a concert at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on April 29, 2016. He is now 15 years old.
He squeezed my ass with his hands and tried to kiss my neck as we were about to leave.he recalls, he added urgently, but he denied his advances.
He maintained that he was surprised, but he was not scared, because the accused had never acted that way before and he asked him to always trust him.
The complainant specified that he rode in the limo with his friends who noticed the scene. They all attributed this misbehavior to alcohol consumption.
Over time, however, the relationship became more personal until Jacob Hoggard sent her a video of herself masturbating in a bathroom cubicle in an unknown stadium.
The hearing was adjourned to the end of the afternoon, so that the complainant had not yet told the court the attack of which he said he was a victim five months later.
So he will continue his testimony on Friday before he is examined by the defendant’s defense.
Source: Radio-Canada
