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“So she was completely destroyed by lying on the stand,” he stated.

The judge wrote: “Given that proof, it is impossible for the court to accept the testimony of (the alleged victim) as credible or even reliable.”

Deslauriers says he did something “very unique” following his cross examination of the complainant with the text messages.

“After she acknowledged that she lied to me earlier, I stood up and I asked in open court for the judge to order perjury charges against her and to have her arrested.”

Deslaurier says Brochu deliberated for about an hour and determined she did not have the jurisdiction to press charges. She said only the Crown could do that, and Crown prosecutor Marc Huneault refused to do so.

That’s a shame and a travesty of justice, and it happens too often.

Donovan, who shared a room with the other player who hooked up with the woman on the dating app Tinder, admitted to engaging in consensual sexual relations with the woman. Foucher says he never touched her.

So why did M.S. lie? Deslauriers has a theory. The court heard that when M.S.’s girlfriend caught her in the act, “not being a very good girl,” M.S. tried to protect her reputation with one friend by destroying the reputations of two innocent men. It was her friend who told the team coach and called the police. M.S. didn’t want to.

Meanwhile, 22 other members of the team have filed a class-action lawsuit against the university for ruining their reputations through association by dismantling the team and firing the coach. Foucher and Donovan may still join the class action. Here’s hoping they all win.

Despite the nonsensical statements taking place as a result of #MeToo and on Parliament Hill with, for instance, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing that women should always be believed, it’s past time for the mistaken infantilization of women complainants to stop. Otherwise, more solid reputations will continue to be murdered.

lcorbella@postmedia.com