The name of the woman is protected by a publication ban.
A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by former Canuck Jake Virtanen has testified she was not interested in him because he was an NHL player — that she just wanted to get to know him.
On Tuesday, the woman testified she shared a bed with Virtanen at a post-bar after-party the night they met.Virtanen’s lawyer, Brock Martland, showed the woman a video from the house party where Virtanen had been vomiting and had urinated on himself. She was heard on the video helping him and offering him water.She said there was no mutual attraction the night of the party and refuted a suggestion she had followed Virtanen around that evening.
She said she wanted the meet-up to be somewhere in public but “felt sick” when they arrived at the hotel.
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