A judge has ruled that a Brockville truck driver was badly impaired by alcohol — not suffering the effects of a sleep disorder — when he sexually assaulted a woman at a party seven years ago.
Judge Kimberly Moore rejected Ryan Hartman’s defence of sexsomnia, ruling that he was “awake and aware” when he anally penetrated the woman as she slept on an air mattress with her boyfriend after an Oxford Mills house party in February 2011.
“His actions were not involuntary,” Moore concluded in her ruling delivered on Monday. ”Mr. Hartman is criminally responsible for his actions.”
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