Sudbury man gets three years in prison in historical sexual assault case
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A Sudbury man has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of sexual assault in connection with a threesome in 2013 but doesn't have to register as a sex offender.
A Sudbury man has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of sexual assault in connection with a threesome in 2013 but doesn't have to register as a sex offender.
Eric Fraser, 31, was arrested in 2019 and was convicted Oct. 21, 2022, more than nine years after the incident.
Some of the sexual activity between the trio was consensual, but became non-consensual with Fraser at one point.
In Canada, there is no statute of limitations on sexual assault.
"The complainant testified that she did not realize that she had been 'raped' until some four years after the events in question," Justice R. Dan Cornell wrote in his sentencing decision, read in court July 22, 2024.
"She told us that after providing a counsellor with her excuses about this activity, the counsellor told her that she had been 'raped.'"
The other man involved in the threesome pleaded guilty to common assault prior to Fraser's jury trial.
