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A Sundre, Alta. woman accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy at a New Year’s Eve party has been convicted of sexual assault and sexual interference.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alexa Suitor, 35, did not outwardly react when the jury foreperson read the verdict Saturday afternoon after 24 hours of deliberating.<\/p>\n
The jury began deliberations Friday afternoon after hearing closing arguments prepared by prosecutors James Molloy and Laura Somers and defence lawyer Patrick Fagan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Justice Douglas Mah will hear sentencing arguments at a later date. <\/p>\n
Fagan indicated to the court he will be asking for a discharge for his client, which would mean she would not serve any time in jail.<\/p>\n
Over the week-long trial, the jury heard that on Dec. 31, 2023, a number of teens and adults attended a New Year’s Eve party at a home in the Sundre area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teens and Suitor spent most of the night drinking in a cabin on the property while the other adults hung out in the main house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘We took it too far’<\/p>\n
At the end of the night, Suitor and several of the teens worked out sleeping arrangements. Some were to spend the night on cots in the living room; others would be in the bedrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim \u2014 who CBC News is calling C.D. to comply with a publication ban \u2014 testified that he fell asleep on a cot and woke up to Suitor touching his penis. He said this led to sexual intercourse on the cot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
C.B. said the next day, he received a Snapchat message from Suitor saying \u201cwe took it too far last night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two friends of C.B.\u2019s also testified.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suitor denied sexual touching <\/p>\n
One friend said that she saw the pair having sex when she went into the kitchen to get a glass of water.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The other friend said that he saw the next-day Snapchat message from Suitor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suitor testified in her own defence, telling jurors that the sex and sexual touching never happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-953616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}