Hollywood screenwriter sued over alleged sexual assault in B.C.

A Hollywood screenwriter is being sued for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage extra on a movie set in B.C. in 1994 and then luring her to Nova Scotia and Los Angeles where the alleged exploitation continued.
Douglas Day Stewart, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated screenwriter, is named as the defendant in the lawsuit filed by the plaintiff in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
“In one year, (the plaintiff) went from being an innocent 17-year-old high-schooler with no significant sexual experi