Woman describe sex attacks, drugging in trial of accused rapist

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Promoting a espresso maker led to weeks of drug-induced sexual assault and terror that shattered her life, a lady testified Tuesday within the trial of accused serial intercourse abuser Richard Mantha.

The witness, whose identify is below a publication ban, advised the Alberta Court docket of Justice in Calgary that Mantha got here to her Albert Park duplex in August 2019 when he responded to a web based advert providing to promote a espresso maker, that additionally talked about she was consuming beer.

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“He was fairly informal, he appeared very good really,” she stated.

Intoxicated on beer, she agreed to do medicine with Mantha in her duplex and the accused then produced a lunchbox containing a wide range of unlawful substances, together with crack cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine, the lady testified.

The lady stated she did two hits of crack cocaine, “then I didn’t bear in mind something for 3 days.”

After three days, the lady stated she regained consciousness, noticing vaginal bleeding and needle marks behind her knees and toes she believed have been from sexual assaults and methamphetamine injections respectively.

“I used to be petrified — I didn’t know what had occurred … it was very traumatizing,” she advised courtroom.

It was then that she grew to become conscious that her father, involved for her welfare after not listening to from her for 3 days, was attempting to realize entry into her duplex by climbing into her bed room on a ladder.

A unadorned Mantha fended him off and advised her the police would quickly be coming, whereas threatening her to not inform them what had occurred.

“He stated I wanted to inform the cops I used to be in a relationship with him in any other case he’d discover my children and kill them and my dad and mom,” she testified, including he’d apparently performed analysis on her household in the course of the earlier three days.

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When police got here to her door, she did as Mantha commanded and the officers left with out taking any additional motion, she stated.

The lady stated she recalled flashes of consciousness and of Mantha sexually assaulting her.  She added she quickly found he’d video-recorded a few of these crimes.

“He was very adamant he wished me to prostitute myself out and make cash . . . he was promoting these movies for cash,” she advised courtroom.

“I used to be simply mortified and I requested him to eliminate them.”

Complainant tells courtroom she grew to become hooked on methamphetamines

By then, the lady stated, she was hooked on methamphetamines — a drug she’d by no means performed earlier than — and that Mantha took her to a grimy fifth-wheel camper trailer parked close to the Blackfoot Truckstop in Inglewood, the place he sexually assaulted her once more.

Mantha, 59, is charged with sexually assaulting seven ladies and drugging six of them, totally on a rural property in Rocky View County.

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He’s additionally charged with failing to look in courtroom.

In April of final yr, police spent days looking out a property 20 kilometres east of Calgary the place Mantha lived inside a trailer parked in a Quonset hut, with authorities saying they eliminated “hundreds” of displays and used cadaver canine.

In courtroom proceedings Friday and Monday, one other lady testified she was sexually assaulted and crushed by Mantha in a camper trailer within the Quonset hut on the Rocky View County property in April 2022.

She stated she fled the property and courtroom heard she was discovered by passersby on a close-by freeway.

Girl alleges accused intercourse attacker threatened her and her household

In Tuesday’s testimony, the lady stated Mantha remained together with her at her Albert Park duplex till late October 2019, sexually assaulting her a number of extra occasions whereas feeding her methamphetamines below the specter of killing her three youngsters and oldsters.

Mantha, she stated, would choke her to the purpose she’d black out throughout these assaults.

The witness stated she additionally travelled with Mantha to a rural property strewn with stripped automobiles in the summertime of 2019 however wasn’t sure if it was the identical one searched by police in 2023.

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She ultimately examined optimistic for drug consumption, shedding custody of her youngsters to her ex-husband, and had change into estranged from her household, she testified.

“It spiralled uncontrolled, I didn’t know the way to take care of all of the drama,” she stated. “I ended up shedding the whole lot, I used to be homeless at one level”

After a neighbour confronted Mantha in late October, she stopped seeing him and known as police to report the abuse.

“The police advised me, given his earlier document, it was greatest to not file a restraining order as a result of it might upset him and make him extra susceptible to harm me,” the lady advised courtroom.

Police advised Mantha to steer clear of her however he proceeded to stalk her, sending her on-line messages and shining his pickup truck headlights into her duplex late at evening, she stated.

“He was very delusional — he thought he’d performed nothing improper and that I really cared about him,” the lady testified.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the lady was nonetheless to be cross-examined by a defence lawyer.

Extra to come back

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