Video shown at Charest sex assault trial shows female students looking uneasy
SAINT-JEROME, Que. — Homemade video footage of a 1990s European ski trip shown at Bertrand Charest’s sex assault trial Monday included scenes of two young female ski students who seemed uneasy and who wouldn’t look at the camera.
The former ski coach filmed his students skiing down French mountains and driving through the winding roads of Monaco, but he also took video inside the bedrooms of the teens who went on the trip during the 1994-95 ski season.
A witness told the court Monday she doesn’t have any happy memories of that time.
“I remember feeling awful about myself,” she testified. “I couldn’t look in the camera. I couldn’t look (Charest) in the eyes.”