(Editor鈥檚 Note: Contains graphic detail)
A West 91大黄鸭 man on trial for a 2016 rape testified in his own defence this week and claimed that his accuser was a playful participant in consensual sex.
Jeremy Czechowski told the court that the woman entered the West 91大黄鸭 home where he was staying Feb. 20 2016 with a mutual acquaintance, and while he could see she was intoxicated he couldn鈥檛 assess to what degree. She just looked like she wanted to have some 鈥渇un.鈥�
鈥淪he jumped in my lap within a moment of being there,鈥� he told Crown prosecutor Angela Ross, upon cross examination.
Ross asked if that behaviour shocked him.
鈥淣o鈥� people act like that nowadays, it鈥檚 a different time,鈥� Czechowski said.
Ross asked Czechowski if he could see his accuser鈥檚 legs, neck and chest at that point.
He said he did.
She asked if there was bruising and cuts on those areas, as was witnessed by doctors and police in the hours following their encounter.
Czechowski said he could not see evidence of injuries of that nature.
Ross then asked if he saw cuts and scrapes on her hands or fingers, as was also detailed in medical reports. All but one of her gel nails had also been peeled back.
Czechowski said he did not notice these issues.
Czechowski鈥檚 accuser told the court earlier in the trial that Czechowski had torn off her underwear and taunted her with them within minutes of meeting.
Czechowski said he remembered they ripped off very easily and that he didn鈥檛 taunt her with them. He merely pulled them off, and then threw them to a friend and his accuser asked for them back, in a 鈥渓aughing, giggling manner.鈥�
Shortly thereafter, he said, his accuser joined him upstairs.
鈥淵ou never spoke to her before, and within minutes you tore off her underwear and asked her to go upstairs?鈥� Ross asked.
Czechowski said their mutual friend must have given 鈥渁 good impression of him.鈥�
He added that it wasn鈥檛 unusual behaviour, and he鈥檚 had a lot of people act in the same manner.
When his accuser testified, she told the court she had been confined in the room by Czechowski and that she didn鈥檛 want to have sex with him and said she told him as much.
Czechowski told the court that he obtained verbal consent for the act.
鈥淵ou said she was sexually aggressive from the minute you met, straddling you, running upstairs with you 鈥� I suggested you never asked to have sex,鈥� said Ross.
鈥淚 did ask,鈥� said Czechowski.
Ross asked about holding the woman鈥檚 arms down and choking her.
Czechowski said that 鈥渋t鈥檚 something people do during sex鈥� and that she could have removed herself from the situation.
Afterward sex, Czechowski called her 鈥渋rrational鈥� when he said she took his purse and wouldn鈥檛 give it back, and called for his friend.
鈥淲hat were you doing when you were trying to get her to calm down, aside from going to get your friend to come in?鈥� Ross asked.
Czechowski said he was trying to talk to her. 鈥淣o one was trying to rip it off of her鈥� he went to pick up the purse to take it.鈥�
He said when his friend went to take the purse back, she attacked him.
Ross asked if Czechowski was concerned about her state. 鈥淚 was concerned about everything. I was also concerned with my stuff that she was trying to leave with,鈥� he said.
鈥淵ou didn鈥檛 try to stop your friend from grabbing a woman who was hysterical?鈥� said Ross.
鈥淚t just happened so quickly, she attacked him and he threw her back,鈥� Czechowski said.
The accuser then fled from the house.
Walking outside, Czechowski said he looked for her, but didn鈥檛 find her.
She eventually came back to the house, where Czechowski said they proceeded to have anal sex after a conversation.
鈥淎fter a few minutes of being in what you described as being in a psychosis or something, you took her back upstairs for sex?鈥� Ross said.
鈥淭here was a conversation yes, then we went upstairs,鈥� he said. She had calmed down and was 鈥渂ack to being her normal bubbly self.鈥�
The defence case is scheduled to continue.
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