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A woman working at a ByWard Market store was repeatedly struck with a phone and a stapler and punched during a robbery until a passerby heard her screaming for help.

Police say that the clerk had confronted a woman who walked into the store Friday afternoon on York Street near Dalhousie Street at about 2:45 p.m. and tried to take money from the till.

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She fled with an undisclosed sum, but was arrested by patrol officers shortly afterward.

Karly Desaulniers, 21, is charged with robbery, assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, mischief and breach of probation.

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