Warning: The following story deals with sexual violence and sexual assault and may be triggering or disturbing to some.

A woman in her early 20s sat in the witness box in Kingston Superior Court this week and in a voice barely audible told a story that was by turns harrowing, inspiring and depraved.

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The harrowing and inspiring parts of her testimony were her personal history: Effectively abandoned as child, left by her single mother to raise herself, she was living in a homeless shelter as a teenager and addicted to meth and coke, seeming like a certain casualty; but now, having gone through recovery and treatment for her addictions, she recently completed college studies and is hoping to launch a career in social work that will draw on her experiences.

The depraved

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