Warning: This article may influence those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone to suffer.
The squeezing of the Teddy bear and tremor through his story in a witness box, a female former Afghanistan interpreter who worked in Afghanistan, Canada, said a sexual abuse of a Canadian government employee.
For four days this week, a woman whose identity is protected by a publishing route told the Ottawa courtroom how the alleged abuse began at the age of 17, shortly after moving to Canada in October 2011, and continued until 2013.
“She called me sex toy, a whore and a bitch,” the woman told of her alleged attacker, whose family she lived during some alleged abuse.
Isolated, thousands of miles from his family in Kandahar, he said he could not get the support of his mother, father, sibling or friends. He said that the culture of honor became if the word of the alleged abuse achieved his father, there would be serious consequences.
“He would kill me,” he said. “It’s always a woman’s fault in Afghanistan.”
Galal Eldie, who worked as a technical advisor to Kandahar from 2009-2012, have numerous accusations at the Canadian International Development Office.
The accusations of the 64-year-old Ottawa inhabitants include saying sexual violence, young people’s sexual abuse, assault, threats and blackmail.
In the civil law of next year, the complainant challenges Ali for $ 1.75 million and demands punishments for mental suffering and loss of future or previous financial benefits.
The woman also brought an action against the Canadian government over $ 1 million, but the case was resolved in court in the summer.
According to his LinkedIn page, Ali worked in Global Affairs in Canada until May 2024. The spokesman of the department said that Ali was currently on vacation.
“We take all the claims of sexual violence or harassment very seriously,” the spokesman said. “There is zero tolerance for sexual abuse in Canada’s global issues.”
‘She’s now your daughter’
This week, the court heard that a woman trained in a Canadian-funded school in Afghanistan started as an interpreter at Camp Nathan Smith at Kandahar at the age of 15. At the age of 17, he had the opportunity to move to Canada through a special immigration program for interpreters and jumped into the event.
“My first, only, goal was to continue post -secondary training in Canada,” he told the court.
At first, the woman said that her father refused to let her go because she was young and she was concerned about being exposed to sexual abuse. He discussed his disappointment with Ali, who also worked at the camp. He said Ali told him that he was talking to his father.
During the three meetings, the woman said that Ali placed her hands on the Qur’an and swore to protect her in Canada.
After this insurance, the woman said her father admitted permission. He said his father took the lowest hand, put it on his head, and told Alle that “he is now your daughter.”
“He says to me that I have to sexually please him”
The woman then traveled to Ottawa in October 2011 to live with Ali, her wife and their children as she continued her education.
When the woman is in Ottawa once, she says she asked Alia to help her sign up for university and claim that Ali said her English was not good enough and she should try stripping. He claims that Ali told him because he was a graceful virgin, he could earn $ 500 for a night and it was the best way to help his family.
He decided to continue his education, he said that he had to take a language test to determine what level he should do to improve his English language. But when he asked him to organize the test, he demanded something in return.
“He tells me that I have to sexually please him before he takes me to the test site,” he told the court this week.
“I tried to push her”
The woman continued to describe how Ali walks regularly without reporting in her room. He graphically described in detail, under the Crown’s survey, how more than in some situation he rushed and touched him sexually over his clothes and under it without consent.
He said that during one alleged attack in 2011, his children, who were about the same age as he were at home, that in 2011.
“I tried to push him, but I have no power,” he said, explaining that when he started screaming, he carried him to another room with his hand over his mouth.
“Two things happened to me,” he told the court. “I was going to rape or die.”
After the alleged attack in his bedroom, he said that Ali told him that he was hidden in his room and sent a video of two of them to his father in Afghanistan if he told anyone. He said he was horrified and confused and knew that if his father survived, his mother and sister would also be punished.
The woman told the court that she moved from Ali’s Family Home on February 1, 2012, a few months after arriving in Canada, and then moved again several months later – in both cases to go to accommodation where men were not present.
In the summer of 2013, he claimed that Ali called him, saying he wanted to meet. If he refused to meet, he would send a video of two of their father, he told the court.
According to him, they met in the side market, he reached his car and drove them to Montreal, where he had organized a hotel.
He presented detailed descriptions of the prolonged sexual abuse he claimed to have suffered in the hands of Ali in that hotel room and to use his camera to shoot a movie.
“I remember he had a black camera. I remember it was a family camera because I’ve seen that camera at their home,” he said.
Memories of attacks ‘cloudy’
The woman claims that Ali took her to a nearby shopping mall, bought her Purple Lace underwear and made her put it back when they arrived at the hotel.
Then Ali claimed to show his pictures of himself to shake hands with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, former Minister of Defense Peter Mackay and former Prime Minister David Johnston. He told the court that Ali threatened him by saying that if he revealed what he had made, he had strong friends and influences him to make his immigration status withdrawn.
The woman told the court that the photos looked fake. Pictures of this description have not been evidenced.
On the way home from Montreal the next morning, Ali claimed to take him to the La Ronde hump, put him in different times and took pictures.
During the cross -survey, the lowest defense lawyer took him through each claim, asking him to provide accurate details of the events.
Some of the alleged cases lacked details of their sequence, details, timing or extent. He said there were other cases that he did not first remember, but which later came to the surface.
He said that after “Montreal case” he was so traumatically that his exact memory of the alleged abuse is “fuzzy” or “cloudy”.
The woman explained that she was coping with post -traumatic stress disorder and has been treated for depression.
The lowest defense lawyer repeatedly challenged the woman, suggesting that cases never occurred. “It happened. That’s why I’m talking here. If it doesn’t happen, I wouldn’t be here,” he replied.
After a four -day certificate, the trial was postponed so that the crown and the defense lawyer could address the technical issue of the introduction of new evidence.
The woman’s cross -survey will continue at the Ottawa Court of Justice on Monday.
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