N.S. woman wins damages from ‘trusted’ man who sexually assaulted her
HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia woman has won $160,000 in damages from a once-trusted man more than twice her age who sexually assaulted her.
“There is no rational explanation for his conduct other than simple selfish, callous lechery,” Justice Gregory Warner said in a decision released Friday.
The woman, who was 23 at the time, sued the man after he forcibly touched her genitals when she booked a ride at his horse-riding stables on Sept. 14, 2010.
The man insisted she had come on to him, and he only touched her “on her belly.”