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Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years for Toronto sex assaults [Video]

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Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard, seen here in a file photo, “is a sexual predator,”  Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein said Monday. 

Cole Burston/THE CANADIAN PRESS file photo

After disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard was sentenced to 11 years in prison Monday for multiple sexual assaults spanning decades in Toronto, one of his victims declared: “If we can do it, so can you.” 

The woman’s statement about finding the strength to come forward with her allegations underscored a fact emphasized by Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein in his sentencing decision: that Nygard was able to use his power and influence in the fashion industry to prey on young women and girls for years and sexually assault them, leaving them humiliated, degraded and traumatized.

Jacques Gallant is a Toronto-based reporter covering courts,justice and legal affairs for the Star. Reach him by emailat [email protected] orfollow him on Twitter:

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