The former Canadian
producer Gibert Rozon was, on Tuesday, acquitted of sexual assault and
harassment charges, for which he received a prison sentence. The former
producer was convicted in December 2018 for allegedly harassing a woman in 1979,
whose name was not revealed initially but later she revealed her name as Annick
Charette.

The Quebec public prosecutor’s office did not file charges from 13 other
alleged victims, reported AFP.

Judge Melanie Hebert gave the judgement of two contradictory sides of
the sexual harassment against each other, which do not proved Rozon’s guilty of
the act “beyond a reasonable doubt”. But “this acquittal does not mean
that the alleged events did not occur,” she said. She even ruled that the victim’s
story was “more plausible” than Rozon’s.

Charette immediately showed an “incredible sense of
helplessness” after the judgement. However, same Rozon left the courtroom
without any comment soon after the judgement.

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“This Tuesday, December
15 will remain a somber day for all victims of sexual assault in Quebec,”
said Charette. “I think I am another example of the limits of the justice
system in matters of sexual violence,” she added, reported AFP.

Despite the court ruled against her, she motivated the sexual
assault victims to never give up or feel ashamed and should always stand up for
themselves.

Prosecutor Bruno Menard mentioned, he would consider an eventual
appeal of the verdict.

The trials of November 6 showed that the representative of the
public prosecutor’s office demanded for the former producer’s conviction,
mentioning that the facts which Rozon produced in the court as illogical.
However, the Rozon’s team said that his client should be freed on the benefit
of the doubt, based on the victim’s “inconsistencies” and “memory lapse”, in
her aguments, as the event took places 20 years ago.

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Charette explained, Rozon had tried to kiss her and remove her
underwear while they were alone in a house north of Montreal after which she
resisted and he did not push further and they slept in separate bedrooms. But
their explainations of  that event varied
wildly, reported AFP.

In October 2017 also nine women went public and alleged Rozon of
sexual harassment.