Geary man acquitted in sex-assault case
Judge said complainant’s testimony wasn’t reliable or credible, while Jonathan Dort, 43, had reason to believe girl was 16 - legal age of consent - when they had sex in January 2021
Warning: This article includes graphic descriptions of a sexual encounter between an adult and a minor.
Four years after Jonathan Dort had sex with a 15-year-old girl in his truck on the side of a back road, a judge found him not guilty of sexual assault and sexual interference.
Dort, 43, of Maxwell Road in Geary, had been standing trial in a piecemeal fashion since 2022 on Jan. 7, 2021, charges alleging he sexually assaulted a then-15-year-old girl and touched her for a sexual purpose.
There’s a court-ordered publication ban in effect protecting the identity of the complainant.
Fredericton provincial court Judge Natalie LeBlanc rendered her decision on the trial Wednesday afternoon.