Former Hedley frontman jailed five years for sexual assault
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Jacob Hogard was sentenced to five years behind bars on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual assault. The former Headley frontman and Canadian Idol competitor was found guilty in 2016 of sexually assaulting a woman in a Toronto hotel room. The victim said the assault will haunt her for the rest of her life.
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Former Headley frontman and Canadian Idol competitor Jacob Hogard was sentenced to five
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years behind bars on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual assault. Now the crime wanted a
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six to seven year sentence which is above the normal range for someone without a criminal record.
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Hogard's defense argued three to four years should be the sentence as he is at a low risk to re-offend
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and can easily rehabilitate back into society once released. In 2016 Hogard sexually assaulted
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an Ottawa woman in a Toronto hotel room which the victim said will haunt her for the rest of her life
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at Hogard's sentencing hearing. Also Hogard had been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm
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and sexual interference with a teenage girl. Hogard had pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
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The Ottawa woman said Hogard choked her and that the sexual assault lasted four hours. Hogard admitted
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to consensual passionate sex with both individuals and spitting and slapping could have happened but
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it did not involve choking the woman. During the sentencing hearing earlier this month the Ottawa
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woman said I was never the same after that day a part of me died that day that I will never get back.
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She said the sexual assault filled her with despair and paralyzed her with fear for months.
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