Second alleged victim testifies in Trevor Pritchard sex assault trial

Crown Prosecutor Sarah Goard-Baker asked her where the two went and what they talked about. The girl testified that they talked about the weather and asked why Fieldcamper was heading out of town towards Coaldale. She then described how the truck pulled into a driveway near a Dairy Queen, and she saw the truck she was supposed to clean. Instead of cleaning the truck however, Fieldcamper asked her to play video games naked with him for $100, which she declined to do.

According to the girl, the two then went into a home, and to Fieldcamper’s room where they began to play video games, and he eventually asked her to kiss him. The girl testified she gave him “a peck” on the lips and then was pushed to the bed as he kissed her and groped her breasts. Goard-Baker asked whether he asked for permission to touch her, and she replied, “no.” The Crown then asked whether Fieldcamper ever asked the girl her age, to which she replied that he did, and that she told him she was 14.

She remained at the home for “a couple of hours,” was then driven back to Lethbridge and given $100. From then on, the girl testified that the two would text “every day” on social media, and that “he was pretty much my best friend.” Nearly every time the two saw one another, she told the court that he would pick her up at the same grocery store and take her either to his home in Coaldale, or they would go driving on country roads outside of the city. Goard-Baker asked the teen why Fieldcamper never went to her home to pick her up, or introduced her to his girlfriend at the time, to which she replied that he didn’t want people to know they were friends.

The Crown also asked the now 16-year-old how she found out Phillip Fieldcamper was allegedly actually Trevor Pritchard. About a month after initially meeting, the girl said she would sometimes get messages from a Trevor Pritchard Facebook account, and she eventually saw some items online that referred to him. She testified he told her she “wasn’t supposed to see it,” but was happy she didn’t tell anyone else at the time. The girl also told the court that Pritchard pressured her to tell her friends – including another alleged victim who testified prior – about Phillip Fieldcamper and that he was a trustworthy person.

The teen told the court she liked the attention she received from Pritchard, even when it became negative. She testified that sometime a month or two after they met- in either October or November when it was -30 degrees outside, the two were driving on a country road when he stopped, pulled her out of the truck and began pulling her clothes off as he pressed her against the vehicle, telling her “no, no, you’re not going anywhere.” She was eventually let back into the truck and a short time later he had sex with her. She testified that nearly every time the two met after that encounter they would have sex – and on three occasions she remembered being particularly afraid.

Although the teen couldn’t remember the month, day, or time of day the encounters occurred, she told the court on one occasion Pritchard had yellow rope or twine in his room and bound her arms behind her back and her ankles, so she couldn’t move, had sex with her, and told her he might leave her that way. On another occasion, she described being sodomized and on a third occasion, a black belt tied around her neck so tightly that she began blacking out.

“I felt like I was going to die,” she told the court, in tears.

In January 2017, the Crown asked her why she decided to go to police. The girl told the court she was “fed up with being used and he started hurting my friends.”

In front of the judge, defense and crown counsel, and while holding a victim services worker’s hand, she was then asked to identify the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her, and told the court Trevor Pritchard was that man.

However, under cross-examination by Defense Counsel Nuha Abunada, the girl’s memory of all of the events was called into question. It included the first time she said she had been to Pritchard’s home in August 2016. Abunada told her he had not moved into the house in Coaldale until Sept. 15, 2016.

“Could you be wrong about the date?” Abunada asked.

The defense also asked about details including a description of the truck she was supposed to clean, about dates, and the time of day of the alleged assaults, to which the girl stated she had been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and many of her memories were “jumbled.”

In a Jan. 2017 police statement made by the teen, Abunada asked if she remembered where the twine the girl was allegedly bound with, was located. In the police statement the girl described it as being in the closet, however she testifed it had actually been on the floor near Pritchard’s bed.

The -30-degree weather during the time the 16-year-old told the court she was pushed out of Pritchard’s truck was also called into question, as was whether she had ever seen Pritchard without a shirt on.

The defense then ended its cross-examination with the assertion that the experiences the girl had testified to were either “dreams, fantasies” and something that had never actually occurred.

The trial is expected to continue until at least the end of the week.

by Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter

Second alleged victim testifies in Trevor Pritchard sex assault trial

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