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RSS FeedsToronto police Sgt. Christopher Heard found guilty on two counts of sexual assault in retrial
(The Star Health)

 
 

19 september 2019 16:50:03

 
Toronto police Sgt. Christopher Heard found guilty on two counts of sexual assault in retrial
(The Star Health)
 


After a retrial probing allegations he groped two women inside his police car in separate 2015 incidents, a Toronto police sergeant has been found guilty of two counts of sexual assault.Scarborough court Justice Philip Downes’ decision comes after a years-long legal saga that saw Sgt. Christopher Heard charged, sent to trial, found not guilty by a judge, and then retried this summer, after Crown lawyers successfully appealed his acquittal. “I find that these women told the truth about what Sgt. Heard did to them: He touched them on their inner thigh near their vaginal areas without their consent,” said Downes in a brief hearing Thursday.“That is a sexual assault.”Heard, a longtime Toronto police officer and married father of three, pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault stemming from separate incidents alleged to have occurred in the fall of 2015. The complainants — two young women who did not know each other — independently came forward alleging that Heard had picked them up late at night in Toronto’s Entertainment District, offered them a ride home, then groped them inside his police vehicle. Each alleged he suddenly touched her inner thigh.In both cases, Heard failed to activate his police vehicle’s in-car camera system. The second assault is alleged to have occurred while Heard knew he was under investigation for the first alleged assault by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Ontario’s civilian police watchdog.Heard does not dispute that he picked up the women and drove them home, but he denies the allegations of sexual assault in both cases.“Absolutely not. I didn’t touch her once,” Heard said on the stand in June, during the retrial, when asked about the first complainant’s allegations. “I didn’t touch her twice. I didn’t touch her three times. I didn’t touch her by accident. I didn’t touch her.”The complainants — wh ...


 
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