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A Windsor man testified Thursday that despite meeting a refugee claimant on an online dating site, having sex the first time he met her and marrying three weeks later, he did not turn his new wife into a sex slave.

The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his wife, is on trial — charged with three counts of sexual assault, three counts of extortion and one count of assault stemming from alleged incidents in the two months following their May 2015 marriage.

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I was rescuing someone from another country

He took the stand in his own defence in Superior Court and under questioning from his lawyer Ken Marley detailed how the rapid pace of their relationship was to help save the Nigerian woman from deportation.

She was facing a hearing with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada just a few days after they married May 28, 2015, at Windsor city hall.

He was 46 and she was 32 at the time.

The man testified he turned to the online site Plenty of Fish in late April 2015 to find a wife because he wanted to marry and have children after an Edmonton woman who he had a three-year long-distance relationship with shot down his marriage proposal.