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Forcing a teenage Calgary girl to engage in sex with three men for a ride home on a cold winter’s night has landed a city man a sexual-assault conviction.

Court of Queen’s Bench Justice John McCarthy said Tuesday there was no “air of reality” to the defence suggestion that Abdifatah (Diggy) Ibrahim, 23, believed the girl consented.

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The victim, who was 16 at the time of the Feb. 9, 2015, assault, testified in December she was forced to have sex with Ibrahim and two other men when she and her friend became stranded, in what the judge called “depraved acts” by all three.

She and her friend, then 17, had been at another friend’s home the previous evening and had taken the CTrain downtown to transfer to a Coventry Hills bus to spend the night at the other girl’s parent’s home.

But by the time they got downtown, the bus they needed was no longer running, McCarthy noted.

They were able to get a ride as far as a Beddington convenience store, but still faced a walk of up to three hours to get to the other girl’s home.