{"id":87378,"date":"2017-02-01T01:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87378"},"modified":"2017-02-01T01:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:56:31","slug":"toronto-pastor-hawkes-found-not-guilty-of-gross-indecency-indecent-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/01\/toronto-pastor-hawkes-found-not-guilty-of-gross-indecency-indecent-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto pastor Hawkes found not guilty of gross indecency, indecent assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_87376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87376\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/428px-Rev._Dr._Brent_Hawkes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87376\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/428px-Rev._Dr._Brent_Hawkes.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto pastor Hawkes found not guilty of gross indecency, indecent assault (Photo by Marc Lostracco (Bitpicture from Toronto, Canada) The photographer kindly changed the license of the image to cc-by-sa-2.0 in response to a request to upload the image to Wikimedia Commons. (Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes Uploaded by Skeezix1000) [CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"428\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/428px-Rev._Dr._Brent_Hawkes.jpg 428w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/428px-Rev._Dr._Brent_Hawkes-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto pastor Hawkes found not guilty of gross indecency, indecent assault (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ARev._Dr._Brent_Hawkes.jpg\">Marc Lostracco (Bitpicture from Toronto, Canada) The photographer kindly changed the license of the image to cc-by-sa-2.0 in response to a request to upload the image to Wikimedia Commons. (Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes Uploaded by Skeezix1000) [CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>KENTVILLE, N.S.\u2014Prominent Toronto pastor Brent Hawkes has been found not guilty of gross indecency and indecent assault.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial court Judge Alan Tufts handed down the verdict today in Kentville, N.S., saying he found significant inconsistencies in the testimony of the witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkes, a high-profile rights activist who officiated at former NDP leader Jack Layton&#8217;s state funeral in 2011, had pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from events in the mid-1970s, when Hawkes was a teacher in his mid-20s in Nova Scotia&#8217;s Annapolis Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The trial heard emotional testimony from a middle-age man who said Hawkes led him down a hallway naked during a drunken get-together at his trailer and forced oral sex on him in a bedroom when he was about 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>But taking the stand in his own defence last November, Hawkes categorically denied the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENTVILLE, N.S.\u2014Prominent Toronto pastor Brent Hawkes has been found not guilty of gross indecency and indecent assault. Provincial court Judge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[14458,14459],"class_list":["post-87378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-brent-hawkes","tag-toronto-pastor","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}