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May 27, 2022 • 14 hours ago • 4 minutes of reading • 12 comments Hedley leader Jacob Hoggard leaves 361 University Ave. on Friday, May 6, 2022. Photo by Veronica Henri / Toronto Sun / Postmedia Network
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They painted very different portraits of Hedley’s leader, Jacob Hoggard, and asked the jury to choose between them: a monster who violently raped two women or an insensitive man who hurt his feelings by discarding them after sex without sense but pampered.
“Mr. Hoggard did not sexually assault anyone in the fall of 2016 or ever, “defense attorney Megan Savard told the jury in her final argument.
“You’ve heard evidence from Mr. Hoggard that he never touched these women without her consent,” she said. “If you believe him or if he may be telling the truth, you must absolve him.”
Hoggard, 37, pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault with bodily harm and one of sexual interference, related to the alleged sexual contact of the first accuser when she was under 16 years of age.
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Savard accused both women of inventing rape stories to win the sympathy of friends and family after feeling used by Hoggard, never expecting them to feel pressured to report to the police with their called lies two years later.
“They both realized they didn’t add up,” he said.
Her lawyer readily admitted that Hoggard, a drunkard of early fame and fortune and popular with women for the first time, slept through the country to feed her insecurity and strengthen her ego.
His sexual encounters with a 16-year-old teenager and an 20-year-old Ottawa woman were two of those dates, he said.
Hoggard now sees that he did not treat women very well in those days, Savard said, and was sincere with the jury about his “margin” sexual preferences, such as playing spitting and calling them “whores” and “whores.” “.
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The Vancouver carpenter is now a changed, married man with a young son.
“After years of living the celebrity party life of a celebrity, he pledged to live the life of honesty and fidelity,” Savard said. “What life did Jacob Hoggard leave behind: the casual, promiscuous search for consensual but ultimately transactional and unsatisfactory sex?
“Or the life of a sadistic rapist who enjoyed listening to the no and took no steps to protect himself from the consequences of his violent and downright horrifying crimes?”
Savard urged the jury to find that the former was true.
“He is not a monster, he is a flawed human being whose fame and power gave him the ability to engage in harmful conduct and two women were hurt by his cruel approach to their sexual intercourse,” he insisted.
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“But Mr. Hoggard is not on trial for breaking hearts or disrespecting women. He is not on trial for being great with his feelings.”
Crown attorney Jill Witkin told jurors that Hoggard was much more than insensitive: he was a “right-wing sexual opportunist” who would not accept a no in response, turning into the monster and psychopath described by his accusers.
“It simply came to our notice then. physical suffering, “he said.
“This is not consent.”
He called the theory of defense that the two women independently invented stories of violent rape because they felt used by Hoggard “absurd.” “It’s an offense to common sense,” Witkin said.
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Their stories are believable in themselves, he argued, but even more so when they are considered to be remarkably similar, even though they do not know or communicate with each other.
They were both students: one in high school and one in college, they both received the video of Hoggard having sex in a bathroom, they both complained that he became a different person once they were in the hotel room, he stared at them, raped them, slapping them in the face, forcing their mouths open to spit on them and call them degrading names.
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Both women had trouble breathing and both thought they would faint or die, Witkin continued. Everyone suffered from pain, bruising and bleeding. And after leaving, everyone received a message from Hoggard saying that they had had a good time and couldn’t wait to see them again, as if nothing had happened.
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a coincidence. This is not an unfair turn of fate facing Mr. Hoggard, “the prosecutor said.” All (the women) describe an unusually and surprisingly similar violent and degrading rape by Mr. Hoggard. Hoggard “.
The judge is scheduled to give instructions to the jury on Tuesday.
mmandel@postmedia.com
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