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Tribunal rules police wrongly targeted black migrant workers in 2013 rape case

It was an October evening, after 9 p.m. and this was her evening routine. She stepped onto the front porch and looked out at the road that was used frequently by migrant workers walking to and from local farms. She lived alone in rural Elgin County and sat down in the peaceful darkness that shrouded farm country and lit a cigarette. She had no idea of the sudden horror that approached under the sentinel light. Suddenly, there was a gloved hand around her mouth. A tall man in a grey hoodie — his face guarded by darkness — pulled out a knife.

She fought back but was knocked backwards and hit her head on the brick wall of the house. The man wearing gloves dragged her into the house where she stood facing him. He tried to turn her around and got her onto the living room floor, face down, and choked her with a piece of cloth.

That’s when she stopped resisting. He then blindfolded her and tied her wrists and told her that he was going to kill her. Instead, he raped her. Then he tied her ankles and wiped down her body with a cloth and threatened her with death if she called police. The terror lasted about 45 minutes and then the man was gone.

Source : Farmers Fourm

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