Hedley’s Jacob Hogard raped two victims “many times”: Crown

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Hedley frontman Jacob Hogard “raped” two victims (one a teenage fan) “many times” and “violently” in a hotel room in 2016, the jury said in a crown explosion. It was said in the opening statement.

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Prosecutor Kelly Slate told the jury to hear evidence that Hogard had made friends with a 15-year-old fan who had been to concerts with his parents since he was 10. On her 13th birthday, her parents took her to Kirkland’s Hedley Concert. A lake that made friends with the band in the hotel parking lot.

Hogard and his young fans began sending text messages to each other when she was 15, told her that he loved her and arranged for her to attend the ACC concert alone with her friends. Said Slate.

“At that concert, she was too young to legally agree to sexual contact,” the prosecutor said. “He tried to kiss her neck, and when they posed for her photo, he grabbed her ass.”

After she turned 16, he asked her to meet him in Toronto on September 30, 2016, following many frivolous text messages that Hogard said she was beautiful and she had a future. Arranged for. “A big city,” Slate said.

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Instead, he took her to a hotel room at the Sheraton Gateway at the airport, where he claimed to have “raped her hard many times,” and tried to rape her in the anus, but failed, the prosecutor said. Insisted.

In an attack that lasted for hours, Hogard struck her, spit in her mouth, and called her name, the crown said, and pushed her face into a pillow she couldn’t breathe.

“She was crying and said’no’,” the prosecutor said. “She disagreed with what Jacob Hogard did to her.”

She was called to work and ran away pretending she had to leave early. “She bleeds and hurts. She had a bruise between her legs and on her back,” Slate said.

Hogard pleaded not guilty to sexual interference and sexual assault that caused physical harm associated with teenagers.

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The second plaintiff met Hogard while performing on We Day in Ottawa in November 2016, and she acknowledged his photo on Tinder, Slate told the jury. They started communicating via text and Snapchat, and he invited her behind the scenes on We Day, but she turned him down.

They continued to chat, Hogard asked her to meet him in Toronto, and he arranged her transportation, Slate said. “She knew they had sex, but when she arrived in his hotel room, Jacob Hogard forced her to herself and raped her over and over again. ..

“That wasn’t what she expected or wanted. She was crying and said” no. ” She disagreed with what Jacob Hogard did to her. “

“He repeatedly raped her-in the vagina, verbal, and anus,” the prosecutor insisted. “He repeatedly tapped her on her mouth, spit on her mouth and called her her name. He choked her so she couldn’t breathe and made her her. I dragged it to the bathroom with my feet. “

Hoggard pleaded not guilty to sexual assault that caused physical harm in connection with the second petitioner.

The trial will continue.

mmandel@postmedia.com