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Earlier in the day, the judge rejected Hartman’s Jordan application, which had sought to throw out the case because of unreasonable court delays.

Hartman assaulted D’Aoust in February 2011. But the criminal case has played out over eight years because he successfully appealed his first conviction.

The case garnered headlines because of Hartman’s use of a “sexsomnia” defence during his second trial: He claimed he was asleep and acting unconsciously when he committed the assault.

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Moore, however, rejected that defence. She found that Hartman was blackout drunk, not asleep, when he pulled down D’Aoust’s pants and anally penetrated her as she slept on an air mattress with her boyfriend after an Oxford Mills house party.

In her victim impact statement, D’Aoust — a publication ban on her name has been lifted at her request — told court the incident has changed her utterly.

“I am not the same woman I was in 2011 when the offence occurred,” she said.

After the assault, D’Aoust said, she gave up her goal of pursing a criminology degree. Instead, she drifted into alcohol, drugs and bounced between jobs as she tried to piece her shattered life back together.

“If I had one wish in the world for you,” she told Hartman, “it would be to live a day in my shoes: to see the darkness I would have to look past every day.”

She told Hartman that he made “a selfish and thoughtless choice” in assaulting her on the night in question. “And until this day, you were certain there would be no consequences,” she said. “You have shown me no remorse and you have denied your guilt. Today you will face the consequences.”