‘He made me hate myself’: Sex assault complainant testifies at judge’s hearing
CALGARY — A woman who was asked whether she could have kept her knees closed by an Alberta judge during a sexual assault trial says she contemplated suicide as a result of her experience.
“He made me hate myself and he made me feel like I should have done something … that I was some kind of slut,” said the slight young woman, choking back tears at the judicial hearing Tuesday for Justice Robin Camp.
Camp’s comments while he was a provincial judge in Calgary in 2014 led the Alberta Appeal Court to order a new trial for the man he acquitted.
Court transcripts show Camp questioned the woman’s morals, suggested her attempts to fight off the man were feeble and described her as “the accused” throughout the trial.