Lawyer presses E.M. on why she didn’t tell her best friend
Carnelos suggests to E.M. she could have told someone who is her best friend that she was sexually assaulted.
One of the texts E.M. sent to her friend said she felt “dirty and used after.”
E.M. testifies she was trying to downplay things to her friend because she’d made her worry.
She says she doesn’t like to overburden people with her problems and at that time, she was still trying to downplay things for herself.
“I was in between ignoring it and pretending it didn’t happen. I’d never gone through something like that before,” she tells Carnelos
Carnelos keeps pressing E.M. about why she wouldn’t tell her best friend.
“I did feel embarrassment and shame. They [the men in the hotel room] were making fun of me all night. They were laughing at me. It was embarrassing….They kept me there. They kept laughing at me.”
Carnelos says that if E.M. had felt she’d been “sexually violated or assaulted that night,” she would have told her best friend.
The Crown objects and the jury is out as lawyers start a discussion.
