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Kara was near comatose when the other two men and AB arrived back at the room late that night

He was still near-comatose, and innocent of any legally reprehensible behaviour, when the other two men and AB arrived back at the room late that night. According to the judgment, “[AB] then went to the bed closest to the washroom and tried to wake up the sleeping Mr. Kara. She said she was calling his name and recalls at one point being ‘kind of on all fours on the bed’ while trying to wake him. None of these attempts were successful in rousing Mr. Kara.” According to Nyznik’s testimony, AB reached out, undid (Kara’s) pants, took out his penis, and “proceeded to give (him) oral sex.” The judge believed Nyznik: “There were very few details Mr. Nyznik did not recall, and for the most part, his evidence was completely consistent with objective evidence.”

Davison notes what neither the judge or any commentator, including the other two cops, saw fit to mention. AB appears to have committed a criminal act of sexual assault on the clearly incapacitated Kara. Moreover, the litany of lies and complete fabrications that streamed from AB’s mouth around the entire night’s events are truly mind-boggling. And yet, she has not been charged with either sex assault or perjury.

Bottom line: The last two years have been hellish for the cops, with their names and images constantly in the news, and public opinion, given the superficial optics of the complainant’s lurid story and the default tendency to “believe the victim,” stacked against them. Though legally exonerated, they have no idea if they will retain their professional status, if or where they will be transferred, and perhaps most important, whether their private lives can ever thrive in any normal way again.

AB? Having ruined three lives, and protected from public attention by anonymity, she is free to move on without consequence. And a journalist calls the acquitted cops “scumbags.”

National Post

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