Hoggard defence suggests ‘rape story’ made up

Defence lawyers are suggesting a young woman made up a “rape story” about Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard because she was embarrassed to have fallen in love with a rock star who used her for sex.

During cross-examination Monday, defence lawyer Megan Savard suggested Hoggard and the woman, who was 16 at the time, had consensual sex in the singer’s Mississauga, Ont., hotel room in September 2016, after he sent a limousine to pick her up in her hometown north of Toronto.

Savard suggested the teen became upset at the end of the encounter because Hoggard called the driver to pick her up, and she was too embarrassed to tell her friend – one of two people who knew where she’d gone – why she was leaving hours earlier than planned.

“The thing that upset you is the fact that after having sex with this rock star, he called the car to pick you up earlier,” Savard told the woman at Hoggard’s sex assault trial in Toronto.

“The thing that upset me was that he had unconsensual sex with me where he hit me, I was bleeding and I continuously told him no and was crying. That’s what upset me,” the woman replied.

The woman, who is one of two complainants in Hoggard’s trial, also told the court Hoggard called her a “slut” and a “whore,” and that she deserved what was happening.

Hoggard has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm and one of sexual interference, a charge that relates to the sexual touching of someone under 16.