Court rejects appeal in historic sexual assault case

An Edmonton lawyer who was the victim of a childhood sexual assault is hopeful that a court’s unanimous rejection of his attacker’s appeal should give other victims the confidence to come forward.
The Court of Appeal of Alberta rejected Bitupu Mufuta’s appeal of his convictions for offences against then-Grade 7 student Pierre Asselin in a unanimous decision Tuesday.
“If it’s true, it’s true,” Asselin said in an interview Tuesday. “You can tell your