Jacob Hoggard dismissed all rape allegations at his trial in Toronto on Tuesday. The 37-year-old actress was charged with inappropriate sexual touching of a minor and sexual assault causing harm against both a teenage girl and an adult in 2016 in the Toronto area.
Before he was called to the stand, Jacob Hoggard’s defense told the jury that the sexual assaults his client was accused of had in fact been consensual and that the Crown had failed to substantiate his allegations beyond reasonable doubt.
Consent between my client and the two plaintiffs is at the center of this litigationexplains from the start the singer’s lawyer, Megan Savard.
Me Savard specified that he wanted the singer to testify at his trial to show that the alleged victims were fully consenting then.
He added that he was one of two witnesses he planned to call to show that his client had not committed a crime.
Another witness of mine was the limo driver who delivered one of the two women to the hotel and then home on September 30, 2016he admitted, noting that the Crown reversed its decision to call this witness at the last hearing on May 16.
Intimate photo of the singer
Therefore, Jacob Hoggard explained to the jurors that his job did not give him the time to maintain serious relationships with women, but it was easy for him to get to know them.
He freely admitted that he was fickle, did not believe in honesty and favored one-night stands.
Girls chased me more when my group became famous than when I was in high school.he recalled, and added that he was already a carpenter in British Columbia.
We understand in the short biography that Me Savard showed that he returned to his former loves of construction sites after the disbandment of the Hedley group because of the allegations he faced.
Jacob Hoggard admitted that he does not drink alcohol on tour because he sometimes speaks loudly when drinking it and[il] prefers to keep cool and save his voice.
He also admitted that he would like to see again in the cities where his group of women he met on tour in Canada performed concerts. He also says that some of them are admirers who attend his concerts and he sees others on dating sites.
The singer admitted that she sometimes sends her partners intimate photos or videos of her masturbating. The same is the case with regard to his two accused.
I love to flirt and my communications on social media or over the phone are usually sexual in nature if I decide to see the same person againhe said.
Meeting with 1D nagrereklamo
Regarding the first complainant, Jacob Hoggard said he never touched the teenager’s butt after a concert in April 2016 in Toronto, when he went to visit him with his friends and parents.
I know the law, I know he’s 15he continued, saying that their relationship after this concert began to have a sexual tangent until he invited her to Mississauga in September of the same year.
The artist added that their relationship turned romantic in the summer and he actually invited her to his hotel in September 2016 to sleep together. as they promised.
On the other hand, he certainly denies the Crown’s accusations according to which he was raped and he beat her for several hours in the bed of his room at the Sheraton hotel at Pearson airport.
She never cried and she never ordered me to stop, I was worried if I hurt herhe assured.
Mr. pointed out. Hoggard that this relationship wasn’t serious, but he said he didn’t know if the young man was thinking the same way at the time.
I usually don’t make any detours when it comes to letting them know that I’m not interested in a long -term relationship.he says.
Meeting with 2at nagrereklamo
The musician explained that he met the second complainant on the Tinder application in November 2016 and he paid for it with a trip to Toronto so they could sleep together as they had agreed before.
He added that he was interested in the same sexual games as he was. She swears she was not raped.
He also said on this subject that the second plaintiff left freely after he kissed her emphatically at the hotel, but he remained in his company.
I didn’t drag him to his feet and I didn’t call him a dirty pig by mimicking the pig’s cry.he says.
She points out that violent unwanted intercourse doesn’t get her excited at all. Pain in my partner is not one of my sexual preferenceshe pointed out.
Jacob Hoggard said they watched a movie and brought the food upstairs before he returned to Ottawa.
He admitted that he recorded a phone conversation without his knowledge, when he called him a few days later to complain about his behavior in bed.
She texted him before the phone call where he says he told her he was raped [ce message a été effacé, NDLR].
I wanted to protect myself from his allegations, but I couldn’t understand why he wanted me to apologize to him.he continued.
She explained to him over the phone that she would have stitches on her private parts, because she had lacerations in the genitals.
It didn’t matter, because I didn’t hurt him and he didn’t tell me he was bloody when we were in the room.he says.
Methodical cross-examination
Crown prosecutor Kelly Slate admitted she had unusual sexual games, such as anal sex, slapping, insults and spitting in the face.
I enjoy kissing women hard with my tongue and making them salivate rather than spitting in their mouths.he said.
He added that the slaps on the body were in fact onlysign of affection when there is dialogue between two people.
He freely admitted that he liked role-playing in bed and insults were among his repertoire, just consensual.
The singer says she and her companions sometimes enjoy peeing on each other, but she can’t remember if that’s the case with Complainant Number 2 as she claims.
Jacob Hoggard, on the other hand, rejects the idea that he enjoys strangling his bedmates.
He pointed out that the second complainant was more explicit than the first in his bed discussions, but they also had fun together.
He was also not the only one to use inappropriate language. [La première femme] Daddy called me and asked me if I liked what he did to mehe recalled, admitting that he omitted this detail in the preliminary investigation in 2009.
Me Slate said he doesn’t quite remember what happened at the two hotels, specifically about the first alleged victim. The singer admitted that it had been a long time, but he had already repeated the fun of the two women.
The prosecutor then asked him how he would know if the woman appreciated loving him. He answers, for example, that [la première plaignante] never spurned his kisses, that she was hugging him and they were both rolling on the bed.
It is not always necessary to speak out loud, actions can say more about pleasure and I fulfilled all his wishes.he said. He never asked me to stop because I was hurting him.
Jacob Hoggard admitted that he told the first complainant in the messages that he loved her, that he saw her as very beautiful and that he saw a future together, but he admitted that they were nice lyrics.
Prosecutor Slate showed him on screen a text message in which the discussion was in terms about their plan after the concert in April 2016. [on pense qu’il s’agit de leur rencontre sexuelle à venir, NDLR].
He told her at one point: You will wait for two years. The young man then replied that there was no need to wait that long.
The singer, however, denied that he did not wait until he was 18 before sleeping with her, as he knew the legal age of consent in the country was 16 years old. 18 is more than a legal drinking age, he says.
However, he made sure it didn’t bother him when it revealed to him that he was 15 years old after a concert at the Air Canada Center in April 2016 in Toronto.
She pointed out that she also knew she had a boyfriend at the time, as he gave her the details of another Snapchat account so that the man in question would not hear their conversations.
The cross-examination continues on Wednesday.
Source: Radio-Canada