Sentencing Hearing Expected For Hedley Frontman Jacob Hoggard

etcanada.com:

A sentencing hearing has begun for Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, who was found guilty earlier this year of a sexual assault on an Ottawa woman.

A jury found the Hedley frontman guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm in the 2016 incident, which took place in a Toronto hotel room.

But jurors found him not guilty of the same offence against a teenage fan. Neither woman can be identified under a publication ban.

Hoggard, 38, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm — one related to each complainant — and one count of sexual interference, a charge that refers to the sexual touching of someone under 16. READ MORE: Jacob Hoggard Found Guilty Of Sexual Assault Against One Complainant During the trial, Crown prosecutors alleged Hoggard repeatedly and violently raped the two complainants in separate incidents in the fall of 2016.