She felt ‘used and abused,’ defence suggests to sexual assault complainant
McMaster student testifies that she was raped by YouTuber Jack Densmore
She is a liar with ambitions to be on “Saturday Night Live.”
He is shy, and embarrassed that he ejaculated prematurely.
Her feelings were hurt when he told her to leave right after sex — which he did because she made him feel bad that he’d finished so quickly.
That, so far, is the defence of controversial YouTube personality Jack Densmore, on trial for sexually assaulting a McMaster University student.
The allegations stem from a first date on Aug. 5, 2020. She testified Densmore forced her into fellatio and vaginal sex. He says it was consensual.
Superior Court Justice John Krawchenko will decide.
The student, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was 19 at the time and had just finished her first year at Mac. (She is about to graduate from a different university.)
Densmore, who goes by Jack Denmo online, was 26 and “a semifamous YouTube guy,” according to his lawyer, Mark Fahmy, who began cross-examining the student Tuesday.
Fahmy suggested the student believed her dream of being an intern at SNL might somehow come true if she were to get closer to Densmore.
Densmore is notorious for posting videos of himself hitting on drunk university students, signing their breasts and encouraging them to have sex with multiple partners during unsanctioned homecoming parties. Some have been viewed 10 million times.
He advises male students to make “consent videos” to avoid allegations of rape. And he is banned from several university campuses, including McMaster. Mac officials have refused to say why he was banned, only that it wasn’t due to criminal charges.
Densmore is also charged with sexual assault, voyeurism and distributing intimate images in a separate matter, involving a different woman. That trial is pending.
Fahmy referred to a text message the student sent friends, just before her date with Densmore. She said SNL was her dream job, but she didn’t have the talent or connections to make it happen.
She arrived at Densmore’s house on Hamilton Mountain and he showed her his video equipment. “You were showing a genuine interest because of that dream, right?” asked Fahmy.
“No. I was showing interest because I was trying to get to know him,” she testified. “I didn’t see him in that way, as a connection to get to SNL.”
“The famous guy? The one who does professional videos?” Fahmy retorted.
Later in the date, after a failed attempt to go for a hike and no effort to go for dinner or drinks, Densmore and the student were on his bed, watching the show “Brook- lyn 99” when they began kissing — which she said she consented to.
Fahmy said they watched that show because she told Densmore about her SNL ambition, so he chose it because it stars actors who were previously on SNL.
“I don’t remember telling him that,” she said.
Fahmy suggested she was lying. Earlier Fahmy addressed “the first time” the student lied. It was when she bailed on their first date attempt. She messaged Densmore that she was sick.
However, earlier she testified she cancelled the date to visit her grandmother. She admitted she lied about being sick, but did so to avoid sharing personal details.
The defence lawyer also accused her of lying by describing the date plan as “a hike and dinner.” He said it was always a hike and drinks, referencing messages again.
But the student said Densmore had suggested dinner in a voice message that the court knows was sent but is unable to retrieve.
During “Brooklyn 99,” things escalated.
The student said Densmore partially undressed her, bit her breasts and digitally penetrated her, causing pain. He ordered her onto his floor to perform fellatio. She said he recorded some of that on his phone without her permission, but stopped when she told him to. He then pushed her onto her stomach on the bed and penetrated her, before ejaculating on her back. (A rape exam done the next day found semen on her back.)
Fahmy suggested she was annoyed at Densmore for finishing prematurely. She’d given him a look that implied he was inadequate.
She said she was devastated because she had been raped.
She went to the bathroom and cried before returning to Densmore’s room to gather her belongings. He said: I have a long day tomorrow. You should be going.
“I just want to get to one thing,” Fahmy said, before a long pause. “That moment when you came back from the bathroom and you’re back in his room and he tells you that he’s got an early morning … and you should go … You remember how it felt? It didn’t feel good? And there’s a lot of reasons in your own mind why he would say that when you’d just had sex. And one of those reasons is that he’s an a-hole?” “No.”
Fahmy asked if she felt “used and abused.”
She said her word for it is “assault.”
“He had made you feel that you are worthless, right?” asked Fahmy. “Yes.”
He reminded her she texted girlfriends while with Densmore to say he was shy. She described him to the court that way as well.
After his client’s poor sexual performance, Fahmy said, maybe she was asked to leave because “Jack was embarrassed that sex didn’t last as long as you’d hoped?”
‘‘ No. I was showing interest because I was trying to get to know him.
MCMASTER STUDENT TESTIFYING AT TRIAL