The second girl to testify within the four-week trial of accused serial intercourse abuser Richard Mantha took the stand on Tuesday, telling the courtroom about her alleged preliminary assembly with him in August of 2019 — a day she stated modified her life.
The girl, who can’t be named, is considered one of seven ladies claiming Mantha sexually assaulted them, with six of these accusers claiming he additionally drugged them.
Tuesday’s witness advised the courtroom she contacted police together with her story in Could of 2023, a few month after she noticed information studies that Mantha had been arrested and a rural property east of Calgary turned the topic of an intensive police investigation.
“I felt that the ladies that had come ahead thus far had been all intercourse traffickers and I needed the world to know that he was not solely a predator to intercourse traffickers however to regular ladies as properly,” stated the girl.
The alleged sufferer stated Mantha responded to a Kijiji submit for a espresso maker she was promoting. She stated she was promoting plenty of gadgets in her condo following a divorce.
She claimed she was intoxicated on the time and welcomed Mantha into her house. After she acquired cash for the espresso maker, she stated she supplied him a beer and he supplied assist with promoting a few of the different gadgets in her house.
Shortly after, she claimed Mantha supplied her medicine. “I did a few hoots of crack and however then I don’t keep in mind something for 3 days.”
She stated she awoke bare on the lavatory ground, bleeding from her vagina. “In between my knees there was needle marks with bruising and in between my toes as properly.”
“My dad had come to see what was incorrect as a result of he hadn’t heard from me for 3 days. He had a ladder and got here in by my bed room window and Richard was there and stopped him from coming in,” she testified.
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“After that Richard stated that my dad was most likely going to name the cops and I wanted to inform the cops that me and him had been in a relationship — in any other case he would discover my dad and mom and my children and kill them.”
The girl stated police arrived about fifteen minutes later and that Mantha opened the door as a result of she was scared, later standing behind it whereas she was questioned by police and allegedly holding his finger over his lips, directing her to maintain quiet.
“I advised them I used to be in a relationship with Richard Mantha and that I had determined to make use of medicine,” she testified. “I used to be scared that he was going to kill my dad and mom and my children. So I simply went with the lie that he had advised me to inform.”
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It was a lie the witness stated she continued to inform over concerning the subsequent two months, as Mantha allegedly provided her with meth. The sexual assaults and threats of violence allegedly continued.
“I used to be severely hooked on medicine at that time,” she stated. “I used to be throwing up. I felt like I had no choices at that time.”
She claimed Mantha had repeatedly advised her she was a member of the Hells Angels Motorbike Membership and that he would would have somebody kill her dad and mom and children.
“I simply keep in mind flashes from that time on. There have been flashes of him taking me to a trailer that he had parked by a truck cease – in a discipline close by,” she stated.
“I keep in mind him choking me a number of instances, utilizing derogatory names,” the girl stated. “He was additionally videotaping us having intercourse and he was additionally very adamant that he needed me to start out prostituting myself out to make cash.”
She additionally claimed that Mantha had an “obsession” with making giant vibrators which he had round his trailer.
“It nearly appeared like a flashlight, like the bottom a part of a flashlight, and the highest half being wrapped by duct tape and he had put some type of a vibrating mechanism in it that was very highly effective,” she described. She stated he used them on her just a few instances and none of their sexual encounters had been consensual.
She testified that she misplaced custody of her kids across the finish of October after a failed drug check. “I used to be requested to offer a drug check so as to go trick-or-treating with them,” she stated.
“I misplaced my children. I used to be homeless at one level. I misplaced every part. It was very a lot a life-changing occasion.”
She testified that that was across the time the tenant within the basement of her house ‘observed one thing wasn’t proper’ and intervened.
“I stated I had been utilizing meth with him and I want him away from me,” she stated.
The following time Mantha returned, the witness stated the downstairs tenant wouldn’t let him within the house and advised him to go away.
“I phoned the police they usually advised me, that given his earlier report, that it could be greatest to not file a restraining order in opposition to him as a result of it could make him extra upset and extra more likely to damage me,” she stated. “They urged they’d name him and inform him to go away me a alone.”
She claimed Mantha continued to stalk her till as late as December, allegedly sending emails and shining the high-beams of his car into her window within the early morning hours.
She claimed she had been sober for about 9 months when she noticed the information studies detailing Mantha’s arrest and that she “spiraled” and had to return into detox. She stated she made the report back to police whereas she was in restoration.
The defence continued with cross-examination Tuesday afternoon, questioning the alleged sufferer on how she knew Mantha earlier than he got here to her house. The defence urged they’d met on a relationship app moderately than on Kijiji.
The complainant was additionally questioned as to why she allegedly let Mantha have a bathe in her condo earlier than he gave her medicine. “I used to be silly. I used to be naive,” she answered.
“I might let anyone into my house,” she stated, suggesting she had been drunk and influenced by her rural upbringing.
The French-language trial is scheduled to final for 4 weeks.
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