알바 than a new dozen Calgary men ended up sexually fondled by their massage practitioner, a prosecutor attested Wednesday at the begin of a area man’s trial.

Crown prosecutor Donna Spaner told Justice Willie deWit he’ll be listening to 16 diverse complainants which will explain massage sessions from Dennis Quebral Baltazar that they can say included unwanted in contact.

Baltazar was facing 18 charges of sexual attack, but Spaner withdrew one of many allegations at the start of the scheduled four-week trial.

“The 16 (remaining) counts state that the accused Dennis Baltazar, with all relevant times the registered massage therapist, physically attacked each of typically the 16 named complainants, ” Spaner advised deWit in the course of a brief opening declaration.

“We anticipate that typically the evidence referred to as will set up that each alleged sexual breach took place during a appointed massage therapy consultation, ” she said of the case the lady and co-prosecutor Debbie Goard-Baker will present.

Spaner claimed Baltazar worked at a pair of different sports medicine establishments during the time time the allegations happened, via October 2017 to September. 28, 2018, from Motion Sports Center and Chinook Chiropractic Hospital.

“The Crowns expects that every man that testifies may tell this court they attended on possibly... clinic for massage treatment treatment to tackle several physical illnesses.

“While we do not expect or anticipate that every single man which testifies can state precisely the same sexual function, we do expect that each complainant is going to inform the court the fact that while in the massage therapy session making an attempt they experienced Dennis Baltazar engaging in several form of touching of these genital spot. ”

Spaner said some of this men were asked intended for consent and gifted it believing that was initially necessary for their therapeutic remedy.

Meanwhile, in evidence, deWit heard from one associated with the 16 so-called subjects who spoken of their encounters with Baltazar.

You spoken he had five or six massage sessions while using accused, culminating in a new September. 28, 2018, scheduled appointment that was to focus with his groin location, even though it was to be a new full-body rub.

They said during his rub he felt just what they thought was inadvertent cleaning of his exposed genitals.

“And then generally there was some clear, obvious touching, ” the see said.

“I was contemplating in my head, ‘Is this happening to me? '”

On that point, the witness said he will no longer felt comfortable.

“I mentioned ‘whoa, whoa, whoa, Im good, let’s move about, '” he told Goard-Baker.

This witness said Baltazar next moved to their neck location, but this individual continued to feel uneasy.

“I could think his breath of air on us and I actually remember thinking, ‘Is he / she going to try in order to hug me now. ’ ”

Under cross-examination by means of refutation lawyer Jennifer Ruttan, the particular witness publicly stated booking a future massage with Baltazar a good 1 week after the particular incident, although later terminated it.

Ruttan suggested the fact that massage had been only cancelled when the witness discovered someone else had lamented about being inappropriately experienced.

The test continues Tuesday.


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