Controversy over the acquittal of four Niagara teens who were on trial for sexually assaulting a girl while all were under the influence of alcohol.
The judge ruled the crown didn’t prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, with the question of consent at the centre of the trial.
The complainant testified that she passed in and out of consciousness during the alleged attack by 4 teen football players.
Judge Fergus O’Donnell dismissed the sexual assault charges against the four teens from A.N. Myer Secondary school.
The boys were 16 and 17 when another teen accused the group of sexually assaulting her in the back seat of a car after an alcohol-fuelled house party.