They were laughing at me: Female complainant tells world junior sex assault jury [Video]

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The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team says the “only safe thing to do was to give them what they were wanting.”

The complainant, whose identity is protected under a standard publication ban, made those remarks during her testimony in a London, Ont., courtroom on Monday in the high-profile sexual assault trial of Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote.

All five men have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault. McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault. The charges stem from what Crown prosecutors allege was non-consensual group sex in McLeod’s hotel room in June 2018.

“They were loud with each other, back and forth and joking a lot,” the complainant, who has been referred to as E.M. in court documents, told the jury. …