The prosecutor asks the jury to have no preconceptions of how a victim acts \u0022before, during or after a sexual assault.\u0022
The young woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, took the witness stand in Lebel’s trial at the Rimouski courthouse and described going through a night she believed “would never come to an end” inside his condo in Rimouski in 2017.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“Harold asked me: ‘what is your type of guy?’ I was really in a mode where I wanted to laugh. So I confided in him that when I was a teenager I tripped out over the Montreal Canadiens, that I loved hockey players and Sheldon Souray,” she said. “We really laughed at that.Moments later, while they were seated at a table, she recalled, he placed his hands on her thighs and tried to hug her.
“I repeated again that I didn’t want to,” the woman said, adding she went into the bathroom and Lebel tried to follow her inside. “At that moment I was completely in shock, inside the bathroom. I didn’t understand what I was going through. Seconds before, he was my friend and suddenly he was completely different. I found it very aggressive of him to try to get into the bathroom.”
She said she agreed to let him get in the bed with her out of a fear that he would no longer want to be her friend. She also said she figured he had “received the message” when he stopped trying to get inside the bathroom with her. She described the mood in the condo the following morning as “glacial” and that “no one spoke” as Lebel gave the two women a short lift afterwards.In her opening statement to the jury, prosecutor Manon Gaudreault asked the jury to have no preconceptions of how a victim of a sexual assault acts “before, during or after a sexual assault.”
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