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   https://time.com/3607473/canadian-radio-host-jian-ghomeshi-   
   charged-with-sexual-assault/   
      
   Radio host has been accused of assault by 11 women and one man   
      
   After weeks of revelations and allegations, Canadian radio host   
   Jian Ghomeshi has been charged with four counts of sexual   
   assault and one count of choking.   
      
   The news was announced by the Toronto Police Services on   
   Wednesday in a statement that revealed Ghomeshi had surrendered   
   to police and would be appearing in court later that day. He has   
   been formally charged with “four counts of sexual assault” and   
   one count of “overcome resistance – choking,” according to the   
   statement which also went on to define sexual assault as “any   
   form of unwanted sexual contact. It includes, but is not limited   
   to, kissing, grabbing, oral sex and penetration.”   
      
   The charges mark a dramatic turn in the unfolding scandal that   
   has gripped Canada since Oct. 26, when Ghomeshi was fired from   
   his job at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). As the   
   host of pop culture radio show Q — one of CBC’s flagship   
   programs — 47-year-old Ghomeshi had long enjoyed celebrity   
   status in Canada. When he revealed in a long Facebook post days   
   later that he had been fired because he enjoyed “adventurous   
   forms of sex” and was being smeared by a jealous ex-girlfriend,   
   many people immediately rallied to his defense. Ghomeshi’s   
   Facebook statement also said, “my tastes in the bedroom may not   
   be palatable to some folks…. But that is my private life.” He   
   also filed a $55 million (US$48.9 million) lawsuit against the   
   CBC for breach of faith and breach of confidence.   
      
   But Ghomeshi’s post prompted the Toronto Star to publish a story   
   they’d been investigating for months, featuring allegations by   
   three women who said that they had been punched or choked by   
   Ghomeshi without consent and allegations of sexual harassment by   
   a former Q employee. The Toronto Star story inspired more people   
   to come forward with their own allegations. To date eleven women   
   and one man have accused the former radio host of harassment,   
   physical abuse and sexual assault.   
      
   Many women shared explicit details of the alleged assaults. In   
   an interview with the CBC radio show The Current, Lucy   
   DeCoutere, an actress on the Canadian TV show Trailer Park Boys   
   said when she’d gone home with Ghomeshi after a date, “he did   
   take me by the throat and press me against the wall and choke   
   me.” She added, “There was no build-up. When it went from   
   smooching to smacking, there was no build-up.”   
      
   Another woman, lawyer Reva Seth, writing in The Huffington Post,   
   alleged that in 2002 Ghomeshi unexpectedly attacked her one   
   night: “Jian had his hands around my throat, had pulled down my   
   pants and was aggressively and violently penetrating me with his   
   fingers. When it was over, I got up and it was clear I was   
   really angry. My sexual interactions until then had always been   
   consensual, enjoyable and fun.”   
      
   As the story dominated Canadian media support for Ghomeshi fell   
   away, as friends and colleagues publicly denounced his actions   
   and offered support for the women coming forward. Toronto Police   
   announced that their sex crimes unit had opened an investigation   
   on Oct. 31.   
      
   CBC had also filed a notice of motion to dismiss Ghomeshi’s   
   lawsuit on grounds the legal action was “without merit and an   
   abuse of the court’s process,” shortly after it was originally   
   filed. According to the Star, CBC had made the original decision   
   to fire Ghomeshi after he came to them about potential   
   allegations being made in the press and “showed CBC executives…   
   a video which revealed bruising on the torso of a woman he had   
   dated. He also showed them text messages that referred to a   
   ‘cracked rib.’ A source said Ghomeshi had showed it as an   
   example of how rough sex that causes bruising can be consensual.”   
      
   This week, Ghomeshi agreed to drop his lawsuit against the CBC   
   and pay the broadcaster $18,000 (US$16,000) in legal fees,   
   before he turned himself in to Toronto police. The last   
   statement he made on Facebook before deleting his social media   
   accounts, was on Oct. 30 when he wrote, “I intend to meet these   
   allegations directly.”   
      
       
      
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