HALIFAX — A report submitted to the inquiry investigating the April 2020 mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia says the gunman who killed 22 people was known to…
The report by members of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund details findings from meetings held in the Halifax area with survivors of Gabriel Wortman’s violence and others who interacted with the killer.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Participants reported that Wortman bragged about providing denture work at a reduced price and would exchange his services for sex when people could not pay the full cost. The report also says the killer was known to make sexually suggestive comments to marginalized patients who visited his clinic. The participants told the report’s authors they did not feel safe reporting the incidents of sexual violence or harassment to police because of previous experiences in which marginalized people were not believed.This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Meta and Canadian Press News Fellowship.
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