Crown prosecutors are seeking a seven-year adult sentence for a young offender who brutally sexually assaulted his teenage girlfriend.
The boy was convicted of aggravated sexual assault by a jury earlier this year. Both he and the victim were 15 when the assault occurred in an Elmwood-area home in March 2010.
During the trial, the doctor who treated the victim said her injuries were the most significant she'd ever seen. They resulted in a number of permanent complications and also caused her to lose the baby she was carrying at the time.
Court was also told the girl was comatose at the time of the attack and had drugs and a high amount of alcohol in her system.
The victim wept as she read out her victim impact statement in court Tuesday morning.
"He was supposed to love me," she said. "How could he do that to me?"
She told the court she can no longer go to the bathroom normally and will also not be able to have a normal childbirth.
The maximum sentence he would face, if sentenced as a youth, would be three years.
Crown prosecutor Susan Baragar argued that "simply isn't enough."
She said the crime was "a hair's breadth away from first-degree murder," since the victim almost died in hospital from blood loss.
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