Two men are guilty of sexually assaulting and drugging a 24-year-old woman over several hours at the College Street Bar in downtown Toronto three years ago, a jury found Saturday.The jurors could not agree on whether the men forcibly confined the woman, and were also deadlocked on a second count of sexual assault against one accused, Enzo DeJesus Carrasco, but acquitted him outright on a third count of sexual assault. They convicted Gavin MacMillan and DeJesus Carrasco of other matters on their fourth day of deliberation. The owner of the College Street Bar, MacMillan, 44, and bar manager DeJesus Carrasco, 34, had been charged with gang sexual assault, forcible confinement and using drugs — alcohol and cocaine — to facilitate a sexual assault. DeJesus Carrasco was charged with two additional counts of sexual assault, accused of repeatedly penetrating the complainant with his fingers when they were alone at the bar without her consent, and of raping her at his apartment after they left the bar in the morning; jurors acquitted him of the former and could not reach a verdict on the latter.Since the complainant said she could remember little about what happened on the night of Dec. 14, 2016, the central evidence in the case was several hours of graphic video obtained from the College Street Bar’s security cameras. The video, however, does not have audio, and what can be seen on it was described in dramatically different ways by the Crown and defence.The defence said the video shows the two men sexually dominating the complainant at her explicit request. They said she then faked her memory loss and lied about being sexually assaulted because she didn’t want her boyfriend to see her bruises and find out she cheated.The Crown argued the video shows a woman being given alcohol and cocaine until she was disoriented and hovering in and out of consciousness, then being overpowered by the two men and forced to perform painful and humiliating sexual a ...
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