The student, who was allegedly sexually assaulted at home by a South Shore police officer, initially agreed to give him her personal information because she believed she had committed a crime, according to her confidant friend.
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The day before the alleged sexual assault, the alleged victim of Yannick Dauphinais texted a close friend that she had been approached in the IGA car park by the police officer who had followed her from the train station.
“He had asked her for her address and phone number, which she found strange. She was confused about all this, she thought she had committed a crime,” explained the witness, whose identity is protected to ensure that of the applicant.
When she then understood that the policeman was asking her for her information in order to go to an appointment, she would have found it “not very professional”, he explained at the Longueuil courthouse this morning.
“She thought it was funny. […]but that’s all that happened that day, ”said the young man.
afraid to say no
It was not until the next morning, 21 July 2021, that the police officer from the Régie intermunicipale de police Roussillon appeared with the complainant, having received her exact address by SMS.
Dauphinais then reportedly kissed the 28-year-old woman on the mouth while touching her over her clothing, then demanded “a treat”.
Frozen, she obeyed, afraid the cop, whom she didn’t know, would get angry. “I couldn’t defend myself because I was afraid,” she testified yesterday on the first day of the trial.
On the evening of the alleged sexual assault, she told her friend everything in tears. “She was in tears and unable to … she didn’t want to say what happened. I half assumed it was about the cop, but she couldn’t pull him out, he explained. […] It was definitely awful.”
According to the young man, his friend felt “ashamed and stupid because he hadn’t been able to prevent it.”
He then came up with the idea of identifying boot prints in the kitchen and semen on the floor with tape to collect evidence.
The trial of patrolman Yannick Dauphinais, 43, continues before Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud.
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