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I Didn't Consent, Woman Tells Court Martial Of Halifax Military Cop

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 19 Jun, 2018 11:57 AM
    HALIFAX — A military officer has told a Halifax court martial she did not consent to sex with a military policeman charged with sexual assault.
     
     
    The woman had testified Monday she no idea how Sgt. Kevin MacIntyre made it into her hotel room during 2015 Canadian Navy exercises in Glasgow, Scotland, and said she repeatedly told him no as he had sex with her.
     
     
    But during cross-examination Tuesday, defence lawyer David Bright asked whether she had in fact answered MacIntyre's knock on her hotel room door, and invited him in.
     
     
    "I say no sir, I did not invite him in," she said.
     
     
    She also denied Bright's repeated suggestions that they mutually participated in sexual acts.
     
     
    "I suggest you started kissing one another ... and you said to Sgt. MacIntyre, 'I'm not a good kisser'," said Bright.
     
     
    "No," the complainant replied. "The only thing I remember is waking up and him touching me."
     
     
    She had testified Monday that MacIntyre had been in her room earlier with another female officer, but had left.
     
     
    Bright asked about her statement to police in which she expressed confusion about exactly what happened that day, Sept. 27, 2015.
     
     
     
     
    "Did you say to the police 'I don't know. Did I do something? Did I make him come behind me and have sex with me?'"
     
     
    The complainant confirmed she said that to police and she was then asked why by Bright.
     
     
    "Because I don't know what happened between the time he left the room and the time I woke up with him touching me 20 times," she said.
     
     
    Bright also took issue with testimony that she couldn't eat in the weeks following the incident, producing an Oct. 11 Facebook photo showing her sitting before a large plate of food during "high tea" at a Glasgow restaurant.
     
     
    The complainant, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, said she took the photo to reassure her family back home that she was well during her trip and that she actually ate very little that day.
     
     
    Both military members were in Scotland as part of a military exercise.
     
     
    MacIntyre has entered a plea of not guilty.
     
     
    She testified Monday she had returned to her hotel room that night in an exhausted state. She said she hadn't slept for about 36 hours after travelling from Canada and going straight to work in Glasgow on Sept. 26.
     
     
    She told the court martial that she didn't scream or yell during the alleged assault, but told MacIntyre "No," as she was forced to continually remove his hand from her lower extremities "10 to 15 times."
     
     
    The complainant said she believes she "just froze."

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