He sent videos of her having sex

Photo Michaël Nguyen
Ezra Cohen [at the centre] did not hesitate to send videos of his antics with his friends, but he has done everything to hide her face upon his or her return to court on Wednesday in Montreal.

Michael Nguyen

Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:48

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Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:48

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A young Montrealer who has distributed videos of her having sex without the consent of his partners left him without a criminal record, despite the trauma he has to live with his three victims.

“It sends the message that an attacker is worth more than a victim,” said the voice discouraged Stéphanie Tremblay, Regroupement québécois des CALACS, which provides assistance to victims of sexual violence.

She was commenting on the absolution of Ezra Cohen, a student of McGill University, 19-year-old who pleaded guilty to have distributed without consent of intimate images of three young women.

For several months, in 2016, Cohen has sent videos of having sex with nine friends. The images were of poor quality, but the rumors have finally come to the ears of the three women.

Devastated

A victim has filed a complaint to the police, who finally arrested Cohen. When she learned the truth, she was devastated.

“I was afraid to show my face, I didn’t want to go to school and when I was there, I felt that I had to hide,” she wrote in a letter to the court, adding get the impression that Cohen has remorse because he was caught, not for what he has done.

Another victim felt humiliated by Cohen.

“You will never understand the pain, the anger, the anxiety, the humiliation and the lack of respect that we feel, and we feel again,” she wrote, noting that despite the trauma, she would emerge stronger.

Absolution

But Cohen will not have a criminal record, since the counsel to the Crown Roxane Laporte and Jonathan Gordon, the ministry of defence have jointly suggested the absolution, as well as a banned from contact with the victims of a one-year term.

They justified such a request, recalling that his guilty plea has avoided the victims to testify.

Cohen has no criminal history and he is also committed to his community, in addition to studying full-time. His remorse and his apologies have also played in its favour.

“The court has serious misgivings, but she can’t say that it goes against the public interest,” concluded the judge Yves Paradis, Wednesday at the palais de justice of Montreal.