Virtanen told the jury trial that the woman had been an \u0022enthusiastic participant.\u0022
Virtanen appeared to take time to compose himself and briefly put his head in his hands before describing the moment he first heard about the allegation.
They exchanged “flirtatious messages” and small talk, and discussed getting together when she came to Vancouver, he said. During cross-examination earlier Thursday, Virtanen’s lawyer Brock Martland asked the 23-year-old woman why she attended a pre-season game between the Canucks and Calgary Flames two days after the night of the alleged assault.
She had agreed that the incident she had described in court was an “aggressive rape,” which was traumatic for her, and that she didn’t want to see Virtanen afterwards.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.
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