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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — She was finishing her last college exams, the Christmas season stretching before her, when she went out for a Saturday night in downtown St. John’s with friends.

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What should have been a celebration ended with a horrific sexual assault at knife point that left the young woman known only as Jane Doe traumatized, bleeding and crying for help.

She is now suing the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, alleging police failed to properly warn the public that a predator was stalking young women.

Her lawyer, Allison Conway, says her client, then 23, had no idea that four other women and a 15-year-old girl had been assaulted in previous months while walking downtown alone late at night or in early morning.

“She’s a prudent individual,” Conway said in an interview. “She had arranged a ride home with her mother. She thought ahead. And she was completely unaware that there was someone out there who had already attacked five people.”