{"id":10133,"date":"2014-09-09T07:20:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T07:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/wordpress\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2014-09-09T07:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T07:20:54","slug":"student-faces-3-counts-of-sexual-assault-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/student-faces-3-counts-of-sexual-assault-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Student faces 3 counts of sexual assault in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual assault allegations arise from a wide variety of circumstances. As we discussed in a recent post, a sexual assault charge does not have to be based on an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/blog\/2014\/08\/man-banned-from-toronto-subway-after-sexual-assault-conviction.html\">allegation<\/a>\u00a0of extreme violence. A person can face very serious consequences after being accused of groping or otherwise inappropriately touching another person.<\/p>\n<p>That is the accusation against a student who was recently arrested in Ottawa. Police were called to Carleton University after a woman told campus security that she had been inappropriately touched by a man in an elevator, and security guards detained a 26-year-old man until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation led to more allegations. Two other university staff members said they were assaulted in elevators, and the young man was identified by both women.<\/p>\n<p>Three counts of sexual assault have been laid against the man, who reportedly has no prior criminal convictions on his record in Ontario. He has already attended a bail hearing, and as a condition of his release, he is prohibited from returning to Carleton University or any other college or university campus in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals accused of sexual assault face the possibility of serious, long-term consequences. Not every assault allegation is grounded in fact, however, and thorough pretrial investigation on the part of the defence is necessary to achieve a favourable result for the accused. Each case is different, and an experienced criminal defence attorney can carefully analyze the facts and develop a strategy for protecting the defendant\u2019s rights and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/Sex-Crimes-Domestic-Offences\/index.html\">sexual assault charges<\/a>\u00a0in Ontario, please visit our criminal defence overview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0Ottawa Citizen, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/man-charged-with-three-sexual-assaults-at-carleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man charged with three sexual assaults at Carleton University<\/a>,\u201d Meghan Hurley, Sept. 6, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual assault allegations arise from a wide variety of circumstances. As we discussed in a recent post, a sexual assault charge does not have to be based on an\u00a0allegation\u00a0of extreme violence. A person can face very serious consequences after being accused of groping or otherwise inappropriately touching another person. That is the accusation against a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}