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A young bartender who was sexually assaulted in the bathroom of a downtown nightclub by her manager says the incident left her anxious and suicidal.

“It has been almost three years and I still have trouble every day,” the woman said in a victim impact statement read in court Thursday during the sentencing hearing of Mariano De Marinis, 33, of Ottawa.

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The woman, whose name is shielded by a publication ban, said she dropped of out of post-secondary school after the assault and withdrew from friends and family. She said she continues to feel shame and embarrassment. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think about the incident,” said the woman, now 22, who has attempted suicide once.

In November, De Marinis was convicted of sexually assaulting the woman after a 10-day trial. Justice Calum MacLeod concluded that the bar manager abused his position of authority to take advantage of a drunken employee.