VANCOUVER — A defence lawyer has argued that a sexual encounter between former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen and the woman accusing him of sexual…
“I want to suggest to you that, in fact, when you went up to Mr. Virtanen’s hotel room at the Westin Bayshore, that you went there to have sex with him and that you did have consensual sexual intercourse with him,” Martland said.Virtanen, 25, was charged with one count of sexual assault in January following an investigation by Vancouver police.Article content
The woman drove to Vancouver to visit family and friends, and do a photo shoot in 2017, and messaged Virtanen about meeting. He picked her up from her friend’s house and took her to his hotel room. “You didn’t invent an excuse to him, whether it’s ‘I have a yeast infection,’ ‘I’m menstruating,’ ‘I can’t’? You didn’t come up with something?” he said.
“What more do you have to say? Do I have to write it out for him, saying ‘I’ve said no, I’m saying no’? I don’t know what else to do.”In April 2021, she posted her story to an Instagram page for survivors of sexual assault, then spoke with a reporter from Glacier Media for a newspaper story, naming Virtanen as the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her.The woman used Virtanen’s name in order to draw attention to the story, Martland said.
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