'Things needed to be said': testimony traces how Haaima victims found one another through Instagram

Editor’s note: This article refers to alleged incidents of sexual assault and other offences, which readers may find disturbing.One by one, they found one another with anonymous Instagram messages, tense coffee shop meetings, and mutual terror over what might happen if they spoke out.In testimony on May 26, 2026, at the judge-only trial of Michael Haaima before Justice Robyn Ryan Bell, a Crown witness described how a network of young women gradually connected behind the scenes years befor