The alleged Ali Nestor victim dropped her sexual assault charges because she was “exhausted” from defense motions that made her feel like she was in the dock herself, leading to the ex-boxer’s acquittal.
“They exhausted me with their demands,” the victim wrote in a statement to the Journal.
“I have the impression that it was about my case, not the trial of the accused.”
Ali Nestor, who was charged with sexual assault and assault, appeared at the Joliette courthouse Monday morning for further trials.
A defense request for disclosure of the applicant’s personnel documents was to be heard.
But it is rather the stay of the proceedings that was requested by the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) prosecutor Me Marie-Eve Sasseville.
“The plaintiff didn’t want to get involved anymore,” she told Judge Claude Lachapelle.
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Excessive defense
Pursuant to Section 278(3) of the Criminal Code, the defense requested access to various very personal documents belonging to the applicant.
This request aims to obtain information that is not included in the disclosure of evidence, such as B. the medical record, information on the physical or mental health of the complainant.
“There is an exaggeration” in the defense of the defendants, the unidentifiable victim was discouraged because of a publication ban.
Even if the judge must first hear the parties in camera to decide whether or not to disclose this information to the defense, the process was too hard for the victim to bear.
“I couldn’t get through the hearings and coming to terms with my past,” she wrote to the Journal. However, she sticks to her version of the facts.
imperfect sacrifice
In court, the victim’s attorney, Me Marie-Ève Berardino, argued that the victim was not “perfect enough to go through the system.”
The conduct alleged against Ali Nestor would have taken place between January 2018 and December 2020, according to the charges filed against him in June 2021.
With the DPCP running out of evidence, Ali Nestor was acquitted and left the courtroom a free man.
When asked by Le Journal, the former special adviser to Denis Coderre’s team declined to comment.
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