Witness says Charest would stop coaching her if she refused his sexual advances
SAINT-JEROME, Que. — During a two-month European ski trip in 1996, one of Bertrand Charest’s ski students built an igloo out of snow outside the chalet in order to escape from him, she told his sex assault trial Tuesday.
The witness said Charest took her virginity earlier on that trip to France, in his bedroom. She was 15.
“He came and got me in my room and I remember sitting on his bed when he started kissing me,” she told the court. “I don’t remember how my underwear came off. It was painful.”
Charest, 51, is on trial on 57 charges, including sexual assault and breach of trust, in relation to 12 alleged victims between the ages of 12 and 19.