‘Rape it was’: York University graduate student guilty of sexual assault in Mandi Gray case | Toronto Star
In a scathing verdict Thursday, Ontario Court Justice Marvin Zuker said it was without doubt that Ururyar raped Gray on the wintry night of Jan. 31, 2015, after the two returned to his apartment. They had been casually hooking up for two weeks, and were out at a bar with mutual friends that night. Zuker said he found Ururyar’s story that it had been consensual makeup sex a “fabrication.”
“Rape it was,” he said, “not confusion, not uncertainty.”
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Gray had testified she was sexually assaulted by Ururyar after they were at a bar on Bloor Street with friends and classmates. She said the two, both teaching assistants at York, had been casually dating.
The court heard that on the morning of Jan. 31, Gray had been drinking and texted Ururyar to join her and a friend. "Come drink and then we can have hot sex," Gray's text to him said.
In a scathing verdict Thursday, Ontario Court Justice Marvin Zuker said it was without doubt that Ururyar raped Gray on the wintry night of Jan. 31, 2015, after the two returned to his apartment. They had been casually hooking up for two weeks, and were out at a bar with mutual friends that night. Zuker said he found Ururyar’s story that it had been consensual makeup sex a “fabrication.”
“Rape it was,” he said, “not confusion, not uncertainty.”
'No one asks to be raped,' judge says after finding Toronto PhD student guilty of sex assault
Gray had testified she was sexually assaulted by Ururyar after they were at a bar on Bloor Street with friends and classmates. She said the two, both teaching assistants at York, had been casually dating.
The court heard that on the morning of Jan. 31, Gray had been drinking and texted Ururyar to join her and a friend. "Come drink and then we can have hot sex," Gray's text to him said.
I'm not giving two fruity dudes free money. They can go get a job.