TORONTO — A sentencing hearing is scheduled today for Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, who was found guilty earlier this year of a sexual assault on an Ottawa woman.
A jury found the Hedley frontman guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm in the 2016 incident, which took place in a Toronto hotel room.
But jurors found him not guilty of the same offence against a teenage fan.
Hoggard, 38, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm — one related to each complainant — and one count of sexual interference, a charge that refers to the sexual touching of someone under 16.
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During the trial, Crown prosecutors alleged Hoggard repeatedly and violently raped the two complainants in separate incidents in the fall of 2016. They also alleged he groped the teen after a Hedley concert in April 2016, when she was 15.
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The defence argued that the groping never happened, and that Hoggard had consensual sex with each of the complainants.
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