CANADA
Local Express
by: Ian Fairclough
The trial of Rev. Brent Hawkes continued in Kentville provincial court Thursday morning, with defence lawyer Clayton Ruby again questioning the memory of a man who alleges that Hawkes sexually assaulted him in the 1970s.
Hawkes is charged with indecent assault and gross indecency for allegedly assaulting the man when he was a student at West Kings District High School in the 1970s.
He showed the man a document that indicated Hawkes wasn’t a teacher when the man was in Grade 9, as he had testified. The man said he couldn’t explain that.
“That’s my memory,” the man said of his assertion that he had Hawkes as a teacher.
“That’s my point,” Ruby replied.
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