Posted on 08/04/2009 3:59:35 PM PDT by george76
An Ottawa taxi driver who grabbed and kissed a female passenger after following her into an apartment building committed a “serious predatory attack” and should spend at least a month in jail, a Crown prosecutor argued Tuesday.
Assistant Crown attorney John Ramsay said Hassan Jabar Majli, 36, abused a position of trust when he took advantage of a female passenger.
Majli, who has lost his taxi licence since the incident, was found guilty of sexual assault in May after court heard testimony from the victim, a teacher, about how the driver followed her into the apartment block and kissed her on the mouth as she tried to get on the elevator. The victim, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban, testified the driver then put his hand up her skirt and digitally penetrated her as she tried to flee through a stairway door.
Majli’s lawyer, Alan Brass, argued during his sentencing submissions that Majli, a married father of a young boy, has led a respectable life since arriving in Canada from Kuwait ...
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Cut his weapon off and send it back to Kuwait. I hope Canadian prisons are harsh but somehow I doubt it.
Those rascally Amish. Always in the midst of trouble.
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