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A woman who was sexually assaulted by her manager while training at a ByWard Market nightclub has filed a lawsuit for more than $2.4 million against her attacker, the company that ran the bar and its sole owner, alleging they promoted and encouraged an unsafe environment where female employees were sexualized and plied with alcohol.

The woman, whose identity is shielded by a publication ban imposed during the criminal trial of the man who sexually assaulted her, was just 19 years old and a student at Carleton University in January 2015, when Mariano De Marinis contacted her asking if she was looking for work, according to a statement of claim filed on July 31.

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The lawsuit refers to her using the pseudonym A.B.

Less than two months later, De Marinis would follow the inebriated teen to the bathroom, digitally penetrate her vagina and force oral sex on a person too drunk to consent.

De Marinis, who assaulted A.B. while he was the manager of Kavali Nightclub at 34 Clarence St., the company that previously carried on business as the nightclub and Aydin Kharaghani, its sole director, who is well-known in the ByWard Market for his business ventures and as one of the founders of Escapade music festival, are all named as defendants in the lawsuit.