Victim speaks out again as sexual assault conviction appealed

An Edmonton lawyer who successfully fought to have a publication ban removed from his identity so he could speak out about being a victim of a childhood sexual assault attended his attacker’s appeal hearing Wednesday.
“Regardless of the decision, you have to speak out, you have to say things, because things happen in the darkness and the silence,” said Pierre Asselin, speaking outside the courthouse after hearing arguments in Bitupu Mufuta’s appeal of his conviction.
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