Here are again the members of the Toronto Police Academy;
law enforcement officers committed “To Serve & Protect” the Public!!! Most of
their courses revolve around what they call Gang Sex, Assaults, tasering, thefts, drugs,
perjury and extrajudicial executions." Who are the
"Victims?" We have to ask that question. They are Co- Workers,
children, mothers, elderly tenants living in the slums of public housing and
other marginalized people. They are social activists who are claiming by
justice. They are starved mentally ill people who were and are abused and
tortured by the system. They are the people of color and other minority groups.
“They become the targets of those who learn their lessons at the Toronto Police
Nazi Academy.”
Police
document details gang sex assault allegations against cops
Three are charged with sexually assaulting a female
parking officer in 2015.
From left to right, Sameer Kara, Leslie Nyznik and Joshua
Cabero. (Manisha Krishnan / Toronto Star)
By Alyshah HashamStaff Reporter
Tues., June 14, 2016
Warning: contains graphic language and descriptions.
Three Toronto police officers are
accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague in a downtown hotel room
while she was too intoxicated to consent and slipping in and out of
consciousness, according to new details in a court document released Tuesday.
The statements of the complainant and
others to investigators are summarized in a September 2015 police document used
to obtain warrants for DNA samples of the three officers, known as an
Information to Obtain (ITO). None of the allegations in the ITO has been proven
in court.
The ITO was placed under a temporary
publication ban that was lifted Tuesday by Superior Court Justice Faye McWatt.
Leslie Nyznik, Sameer Kara and Joshua
Cabero, all officers at 51 Division, were charged with sexual assault and gang
sexual assault on Feb. 19, 2015. They will be pleading not guilty, according to
their lawyers.
The DNA samples of two men were found
in the processing of a rape kit, according to the ITO. The warrants were
obtained after the officers declined to provide voluntary DNA samples. The
results of the DNA analysis cannot be reported due to a publication ban.
The following account of the night is
based on allegations in the ITO:
The complainant, a parking officer
whose identity is protected by a publication ban, and another female parking
officer were invited to a “rookie night” on Jan. 16, 2015. The complainant said
Kara was the one who invited her and told her a hotel room had been rented for
the night so no one would have to drink and drive.
There were eight or 10 officers present
when the complainant arrived at a downtown bar at 9:30 p.m. — deliberately late
to avoid any pre-drinking, she said. She knew only the three accused officers —
in particular Kara, who met her outside the bar and bought her a rum and coke.
She told investigators she spent most
of her time socializing with Kara and at one point they kissed while ordering
tequila shots. Kara said he couldn’t drink his shot, and went outside to throw
up. Another 51 Division officer took Kara to the hotel room that had been
booked.
The complainant told Nyznik and Cabero
that Kara was ill and had gone to the hotel. She said she told them they would
have to take care of her, meaning she was the only woman at the party and they
needed to protect her. She said she felt comfortable with them.
After they went to the last bar, the
Brass Rail strip club, the complainant, Cabero and Nyznik got into a cab to go
to the Westin Harbour Castle hotel to get Kara and continue to other bars, she
said.
At this point, she said, she had really
begun to feel the effects of the alcohol, and from then on her memory becomes
hazy.
She recalls going into the hotel room,
taking off her jacket and trying to wake up Kara. The next thing she remembers
is being on her back and Nyznik holding her head to make her perform oral sex,
the ITO states. She was unable to move, she said.
At one point, she believes, Cabero
switched with Nyznik.
She doesn’t remember her boots being
taken off, but vaguely remembers her jeans being removed.
As one of the men penetrated her, she said,
she heard Kara say: “Josh, stop she is out.”
The penetration stopped “after a little
bit more coaxing” from Kara, she said.
She next recalls Kara talking to her,
asking her to wake up and kiss him. She remembers being penetrated a second
time.
She does not recall anal penetration
but said the nurse who performed her rape kit had said it was a possibility.
She recalled one of the men saying “should I f--- her in the ass.”
When she woke up she was in a bed with
Kara. She believes the other two officers were in the other bed. She gathered
up her clothes and quickly left the hotel room and took a taxi home, where she
was physically ill and passed out on the bathroom floor.
When she woke up she called a friend
and told her what had happened, that she could not have consented and would not
have consented to have sex with multiple people. She told investigators she had
been drunk before, but had never felt unable to move or speak or had a similar
loss of memory.
The complainant was hesitant to report
the sexual assault — concerned both that the men were police officers and that
they worked for the same employer — but went to the hospital with a friend and
had a rape kit performed. She reported the sexual assault to police on Jan. 26,
2015, when, after calling in sick for four days, she went to work and had a
panic attack.
The parking enforcement officer who
introduced the complainant to the three officers told investigators the
complainant told her she had been raped.
Nyznik and Kara both asked the officer if
she’d heard from the complainant and said everything that happened was
consensual, she told police.
She said they told her Kara and Cabero
had sex with the complainant using condoms and Nyznik had received oral sex.
Throughout, they kept asking the complainant if she was OK and said they would
stop if she wanted them to, the officer said they told her.
They told her the complainant had been
coming on to them the whole night, the officer said.
They said they would apologize if the
complainant thought she’d been taken advantage of because they did not want
there to be any hard feelings and they could not believe the encounter had
snowballed, the officer said.
One of the officers present at the
bar-hopping that night gave two statements to police. In the second, he said
Nyznik may have said something to Cabero to the effect that the complainant
wanted to have sex with the two of them.
“All women want these two guys,” the
officer proffered. He did not hear the complainant say she wanted to have sex
with either of the men.
A bartender at the second bar, who is
also an ex-girlfriend of Nyznik, told investigators the complainant was
extremely drunk — a “disaster.” At the same bar, another officer heard her say:
“I’m too drunk, I’m buzzed.”
A publication ban on the ITO containing
these details, requested by the defence, was denied after a challenge by the
Star and other media outlets.
A preliminary hearing remains scheduled
for July, though the Crown has requested a direct indictment to allow the case
to proceed directly to trial.
The three officers were released on
bail.
Alyshah Hasham can be reached at ahasham@thestar.ca
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