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A woman told a Kingston court she feared she was going to lose her life when accused sexual predator Michael Haaima overpowered her, choked and sexually assaulted her in her bedroom on their second date. Article content

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“He had his hands on my throat, holding me down with his full bodyweight and I struggled to breathe,” she testified in Superior Court on Monday. “I don’t know if I passed out but I thought, this is what rape feels like … this might be it … my neck might break.”

After the Kingston woman in her 30s haltingly detailed the alleged violent attack, she told the court she “felt overwhelming sad” and “ash

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