A 29-year-old man is facing deportation back to Trinidad and Tobago after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting a former partner.
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The man, who can’t be named as it could identify his victim, was sentenced recently by Justice Michael Gibson in Brantford’s Superior Court to four years in prison.
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The judge noted that it was the jury that decided the facts of the case, but that he agreed, accepting the evidence of the victim rather than the convicted man.
“He sexually exploited a vulnerable young woman for his own sexual satisfaction, without the inevitable adverse impact on her sexual integrity and well-being,” Gibson said.
The woman testified that in 2021, she was seven months pregnant and visiting her former partner in Paris to discuss custody of their older child.
“She said that she had sent him text messages saying they would not be having sex during the visit,” noted the judge.
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The woman was accompanied by her daughter and set her up to play with some blocks in a bedroom while the adults sat on a couch.
The man said he was in pain and needed to lie down on his bed and the woman followed him but, once there, he climbed on top of the woman and pulled her pants off, despite her protests.
“She kept telling him that she did not want to have sex,” Gibson said in his sentence.
The child then came into the room and the mother told her to get out, while trying to push the man off her.
When the man had ejaculated, he got up and let the woman leave.
She gathered the child, went to her car and had an anxiety attack, crying and shaking uncontrollably.
During a police investigation, the man said the sex was consensual. The jury disagreed.
The man has a previous criminal record for offenses that include assault, threatening and fraud.
He was also found guilty by the same jury of a shocking assault that occurred earlier, pointed out the assistant Crown attorney, showing that he was not a person of recent good character.
An immigration hearing was held in July and the man was informed a deportation order would be issued against him.
Along with his prison sentence, the man was ordered to provide a DNA sample and will be listed on the sexual offenders registry for 20 years.
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