Two men who drugged and sexually assaulted a 24-year-old woman for hours inside a now-shuttered Toronto bar have each been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Gasps could be heard inside the courtroom when Justice Michael Dambrot read out his decision, ordering 44-year-old Gavin MacMillan and 34-year-old Enzo DeJesus Carrasco to serve seven years in prison for gang sexual assault and two years consecutively for administering a stupefying substance.
The charges stem from an incident at College Street Bar, a Little Italy establishment previously owned by MacMillan and managed by DeJesus Carrasco, on Dec. 14, 2016.
During the trial, the jury reviewed hours of graphic security footage from inside the bar on the night of the assault.
The Crown said the men sexually assaulted the victim, who cannot be identified under a court-ordered publication ban, in multiple different rooms over a period of at least six hours.
The victim was visiting Toronto at the time and had gone out that night to meet up with a friend.
Addressing the court on Wednesday, Dambrot called the attack a “prolonged, violent, and degrading sexual assault.”
Two accused are ‘predators,’ judge says
He said the suspects repeatedly dosed the victim with cocaine for the purpose of continuing to sexually assault her.
The judge noted that during the assault, the victim was “visibly and significantly” impaired and was seen stumbling and crashing into tables.
Dambrot said the two men kept the victim awake for their own sexual satisfaction and said it would have been evident to the men that she was not consenting.
“The offenders were callous to a degree that is difficult to comprehend,” the judge said. “These events may have began as a crime of opportunity but as time went on, it became a well-orchestrated, deliberate, and horrendous crime.”
He referred to the two accused as “predators” with a “deep sense of entitlement and a profound disrespect for the personal integrity of women.”
C o d i W i l s o n, CP 24