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In the early morning hours of May 21, a 19-year-old Ottawa woman agreed to meet a man she had contacted on the dating app Tinder in an apartment downtown.

“What’re you looking for here?” the woman, who we will call “K”, asked the man. He called himself “Brian” and described himself as 27, athletic and over six feet tall.

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“Meet new people in a new city lol, make friends, have some fun and maybe see where it leads,” he responded, adding later, “Maybe we can start by making friends with each other lol.”

K understood that agreeing to meet Brian would likely lead to sex. “I’m not dumb. I know what it means,” she says.

What K didn’t expect was that Brian become very rough with her, slapping her buttocks, grabbing her breasts and forcing his penis down her throat. Nor did she expect that his friend “Andrew,” who was also in the apartment, would walk into the bedroom and also force himself on her. K says she struggled and tried to press her legs together, but could not escape. The two men left the room. When Brian returned, K says she gathered her clothes and fled to the nearest bus stop.