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The following episode contains difficult subject matter and accounts of
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sexual assault. Please take care. It's a warm evening in
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October 2021, and I'm at an airport in Toronto following
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a tip. Two men in dark suits emerge from the
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terminal doors. with a frail-looking man in a wheelchair. He's
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wearing a black hoodie pulled up over his head, baggy
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black pants, and a surgical mask covering most of his face.
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His escorts steady him as he struggles to stand. Walking
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with a hunch, he shuffles towards the open doors of
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a waiting black van. As the man climbs in, the
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sleeves of his hoodie pull back just enough to reveal
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a pair of silver handcuffs. This is Peter Nygaard in
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his first public sighting since his fall in 2020.
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We have some breaking news for you. Canadian fashion mogul
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Peter Nygaard has been arrested.
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The Canadian businessman is facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges
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in the United States. American authorities want him extradited. The
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case involves dozens of women, some of them girls.
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It's more than a year since Nygaard lost it all.
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His international clothing empire, family, Canadian.
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Fashion mogul Peter Nygaard has agreed to fast-track the process
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of extradition to the U.S., where he's facing charges including
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human trafficking.
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In late 2021, Nygaard's case was in court in Winnipeg,
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where he agreed to head to New York to face
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charges of sex trafficking.
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Mr.
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Nygaard, just to acknowledge the consent to committal, and I
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understand that you voluntarily executed it in his presence. Is
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that correct, Mr.
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Nygaard? That's correct, yes.
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Afterwards, his lawyers spoke to media outside the courtroom.
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All that was conceded today was because of this low standard,
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there is sufficient evidence to warrant a consent to committal
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on the one charge.
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In other words, just because Nygaard has agreed to go
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to New York to face charges there doesn't mean he's
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admitting to anything. More than 100 women have come forward.
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Is Mr.
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Nygaard saying they're all lying?
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I'm not going to get into, as in the past, Mr.
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Nygaard denies any allegations of criminal conduct.
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That same morning, There was breaking news out of Toronto.
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The Fifth Estate has learned, I'm just going to read
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from our CBC wires, that Toronto police have charged Peter
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Nygaard with multiple counts of sexual assault. According to sources,
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Nygaard faces nine counts in total, six women, one of
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whom was a minor at the time of the alleged assault.
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The charges were laid on Wednesday, including six of sexual
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assault and three of forcible confinement. This is significant, major,
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breaking news news. Charges against Peter Nygaard. Toronto police coming
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forward with nine counts in total.
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Nygaard was facing his first criminal charges in Canada in
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more than four decades.
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So now the Minister of Justice not only has to
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determine whether Nygaard should be extradited to the U.S., the
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minister will also have to decide if he should stand
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trial in Canada first.
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In the last three years, Nygaard has been charged with
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contempt of court in the Bahamas. sex trafficking in New York,
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and now multiple counts of sexual assault and forcible
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confinement
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in Toronto.
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He is literally, in my mind, a one-man wrecking ball
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of all that society holds dear.
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But what about his hometown, where he lived and worked
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for decades while he grew his sprawling multinational business?
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What bothers me the most right now is that society thinks, oh,
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Peter Nygaard perfected everything in the Bahamas. No, he perfected
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how to get away with all of this in Winnipeg.
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I'm Timothy Sawa, and this is Evil by Design. A
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lot's happened since we ended the series, so we're going
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to give you an update and a deeper look at
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new allegations against Peter Nygaard at home in this bonus episode,
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Nothing Sticks.
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You know, as an Indigenous woman, well, Indigenous girl, I
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think it would be impossible to say that any of
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us were not born into trauma in the 70s. But
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I took life as it came. People always describe me
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as the human version of Tigger. I just bounced through life,
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and I've always got this silly little grin and a
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joke ready.
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That's just who I am.
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Serena Hicks may be known as Tigger, but when I
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met her recently in Winnipeg, She wasn't joking or grinning.
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She wasn't happy with me, and she let me know it.
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She felt our coverage so far had focused too much
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on Nygaard's behavior around the world, and not enough on
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where he got his start in Winnipeg. She had a point.
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It's one of the reasons we kept investigating his time there.
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Having to know that there's these faceless people out there
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that contributed to Him getting away with all this in Winnipeg?
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Yeah, it pisses me off.
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Serena started working in one of Nygaard's stores as a
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young woman in Winnipeg in the early 90s. At the time,
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she had a month's old baby. Right from the start,
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she says the store's manager was full of compliments about
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how good she looked in Nygaard clothes.
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At 20, to feel professional was so amazing.
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After a few months, Serena says the manager told her
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Peter Nygaard wanted to meet her personally. And one day,
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he turned up on site.
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And she said, hey, you know, can you just go
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clean out the change rooms? And I did. I saw that,
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you know, I opened each change room and was like, oh, gosh,
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you know, can't people just put things on the hangers?
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And then I was in there, and then Peter Nygaard
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was behind me.
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And, uh, Nygaard forced Serena into one of the change rooms.
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While he raped her, she says the manager was just
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meters away.
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There's no way that she wouldn't have heard how violent
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it was. And you could hear change being counted. And
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her hand off the counter. And all this violent stuff
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was happening to me. And there's no way you couldn't
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hear it. And, you know, I thought about this little
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baby who I was providing.
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And I thought, God, mom's not coming home.
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And I thought, I can't believe I am alive. How
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am I alive? And then when I got out, I
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realized that I was full of bruises and marks.
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And marks where I fed my babies. Never breastfed him again.
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And I just, I couldn't.
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Because not only was it so violent, but I had
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these marks of the violence. And I had the memory
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of those coins being counted. The sound of her closing
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the till.
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Based on experience, Serena believed reporting the rape to the
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Winnipeg police would get her nowhere.
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I was Indigenous already, so I knew as a young
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woman going to the police wasn't safe. We were never believed.
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We were always tossed aside. Did he know that Indigenous
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girls were vulnerable?
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Hell yeah, he did.
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You're in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg's history will speak of that. There's no way he
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didn't know that.
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In 1980, Peter Nygaard made news for something other than
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a celebration of his growing business. He had been arrested
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and charged with rape. The charges were stayed, though, when
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the woman decided not to testify in court. For the
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next 40 years, this would be known as the first
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time the Winnipeg police had Nygaard in their sights. Until now.
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I joined the force in 1955, and this is the
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graduation ceremony.
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What was that day like for you?
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Well, it was a great day. I was finally on
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the force.
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This is Des DePork. He retired as the superintendent of
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the Winnipeg Police Service Crime Division in 1986. He's 89
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years old now. were sitting together in his living room
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on the outskirts of Winnipeg. And he's telling me a
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story that before today, he's never made public.
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This was an incident in the late 60s. I received
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a report from a young lady of a sexual nature.
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My recollection is she was a young lady, I'm guessing
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around 18, maybe a little older. And I believe she
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worked for Mr. Nygaard in his factory.
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In 1968, Peter Nygaard was a new face on Winnipeg's
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bustling garment-making scene.
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At that point, I knew very little about him. I
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only knew what I'd read in the papers, and he
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was getting a lot of publicity about his rise to fame.
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But other than that, that was my first contact with him.
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His company, Nygaard International, had only been incorporated in Winnipeg
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the previous year.
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As a result of the investigation, Mr. Nygaard was charged
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with a sexual offense. The matter was proceeding through the
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court process, and at that time, I believe Mr. Nygaard
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had yet to enter a plea. But in the interim,
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the young lady, the complainant, she approached the Crown prosecutor
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and withdrew her complaint. As a result of that, our
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investigation was finished. There was no more
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Nygaard was deemed to be innocent.
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To this day, Depork doesn't know why the young woman
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withdrew her complaint.
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Well, it's not usual, but it does happen. You know,
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people say, why? Well, I can think of a number
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of reasons. First of all, the complainant has been through
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a very stressful situation. She's now called upon to appear
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in open court and retell the whole story, which is
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another layer of stress. The other thing is sometimes they
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get peer pressure from their family. They get peer pressure
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from their friends. And in some cases, it's out and
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out threats. And of course, there's also the other thing
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is sometimes there is financial compensation. I never interviewed the
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complainant after, so it's a big question mark.
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Because of Des Depork, we now know that police in
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Winnipeg were aware of Nygaard more than a decade earlier
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than that 1980 rape charge. In both cases, the young
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women accusing him of rape decided not to pursue the
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charges in court. Why?
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Nygaard built this power. He was like a king. He
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had the money. He had the buddies that could support him.
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And this girl that I worked with and their family,
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they feared Peter Nygaard.
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Joy Smith is a former Winnipeg Member of Parliament. She
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spent much of her life helping local women and girls
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who were being trafficked. In 2000, she was approached for help.
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Well, I had a particular incident where one of the
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staff members who worked for Nygaard at the time told
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me about a young girl who had been raped. And
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so I met with the girl and the family.
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The family was furious and eventually confronted him themselves.
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And as it turned out, Peter Nygaard persuaded them not
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to go to the police and not to report. And
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he gave them $ 250, 000 to keep quiet. And, you know,
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I could never understand initially why they would agree to that.
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But as they explained to me, Peter Nygaard made them
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feel that they couldn't win anything anyway. He had the
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money and he'd fight them and their lives would be ruined.
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He was in full power. power mode. He was the king.
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He could do anything he wanted. So the family, sadly
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and reluctantly, did accept the money and kept quiet.
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To this day, the girl in this story, who is
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now a woman, is keeping quiet. She won't speak to
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me or the police. But would it have made a
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difference if she had? After listening to Evil by Design
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last year, another woman came forward.
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How you doing? Here we are.
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This woman has kept her story a secret for nearly
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40 years. She's still afraid. So we've agreed not to
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identify her. What you're hearing are her words, voiced by
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an actor.
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When I first came to work for him, I knew
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nothing about his reputation or anything. It was a shock because...
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All of these executives that walked proudly, with authority, that
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commanded respect. All of a sudden, Nygaard is coming.
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Nygaard is coming.
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The entire building goes into a state of absolute panic.
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Adult men are running around like frightened ladies and waiting.
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They're panicking. Everything needs to be perfect. And when that
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individual arrived, it was as though, you know, he made
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his entrance up the spiral staircase with his lifts on
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and his chest puffed out. The spectacle was truly the
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people surrounding him.
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In 1983, she was 18 years old and working her
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first professional job at Nygaard's Winnipeg office.
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My desk was visible. And, you know, he would just
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travel past my desk constantly, constantly throughout the day. And
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one day, finally, he just came and sat on my
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desk And I was having a cigarette. And he leaned
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over and he said, you know, I really want you
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to be my girlfriend so badly. But you can't be
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my girlfriend if you smoke. And I recall just taking
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a long haul off that cigarette and just right in
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his general direction. And I thought that would get rid
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of him. But it was like something in his eye went, ha,
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she's a fiery one. And so I inadvertently drew attention
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to myself. Over the months, I was constantly expected to
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stay overtime for no reason at all. So I was
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kept working very, very late. And I was very well
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aware of the fact that there were no more buses
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and that an employer had a duty to pay for
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your cab fare home. And time came, you know, okay,
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I need approval for my cab. No, I'm going to
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drive you home. And that's when it started. And I
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was still living with my parents. That's how young I was.
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And it was, you know, quit smoking. You can be
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my girlfriend. You're sexy. And I just got the heck
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out of that car really quickly and ran into the house.
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But then he knew where I lived, you know? And
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so things just started getting weird. And then all of
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a sudden your parents are saying, you know, there's some
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guy with a Finnish accent trying to disguise his voice.
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And he's calling here asking for you. And it was
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a few times, actually, before I realized that's who it was.
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It's just unsettling.
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The harassment and stalking had been going on for months
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when she finally decided she needed to go to the
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police before it became more serious.
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And it was a very uncomfortable conversation for both the
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detective and myself because... He was bewildered. He informed me
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that he had a look into Peter Nygaard's file, and
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he said his file is ten and a half inches high.
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Nothing sticks to this man. I don't know what's happening.
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You have to get out of there. But he was
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afraid for me. Like he said, you need to quit.
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I don't know what's happening. I can't explain this. I
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can't protect you.
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Please, quit.
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Quit.
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And I wish I had. But I thought I could
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handle it.
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She was a single mother, relying on her salary alone.
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So she tried to tough it out. But Nygaard's behavior
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was relentless.
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I was so stressed that what had previously been thought
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of as chronic bronchitis that was being treated, my doctor
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sat me down and he said, what's, what's happening? And
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he brought up an x-ray and he said, my dear,
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you have been hyperventilating so much you have distended your diaphragm.
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And that's what I knew. Nothing was going to get better.
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Shortly after she gave her resignation, Nygaard raped her. The
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woman decided that reporting the rape would be pointless. She'd
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already learned the police couldn't help her when she'd been
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stalked and harassed. there would be no consequences for Peter
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Nygaard in his hometown. That was 1984. But for many
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of the survivors assaulted in Winnipeg, like April Tilek, it
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doesn't feel like anything has changed since.
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The Winnipeg justice system, they don't look good. I don't
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know how they can sleep with themselves with the number
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of people who have come forward and the history of
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that this man had. How is this still happening? I mean,
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back then it was a different time, it was a
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different era, and it's disgusting that it was able to
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go on the way it did for so long. But
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how can it keep going on now?
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In 2010, a family of four in California goes missing,
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and the clues left behind send investigators on a years-long search.
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Is this a family on the run, or is the
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truth far more sinister? From ABC Audio in 2020, this
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is What Happened to the McStaves, coming August 11th. Listen
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This is CP Railroad. We're on Sutherland and Schultz in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Nadine Moustous and I are walking down a bleak Winnipeg street.
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There are potholes, a turned over shopping cart, abandoned looking
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buildings on one side and a rail yard on the other.
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It's the afternoon and it's quiet right now. But Nadine
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tells me that after the sun sets, this street could
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become busy. and dangerous.
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A lot of girls that were in care, a lot
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of us were out here.
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A lot of them are not here.
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A lot of them got murdered.
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So I'm one of the fortunate ones.
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In the 1990s, this was a place where men could
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buy and abuse children.
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This was a kiddie track. This is where I would
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come a lot of times when I was on the
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run for survival, prostitution. They should actually call it pedophile
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track because that's what it was.
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Nadine came here as a way to survive.
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From 18 months, I was put in a foster home.
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I don't know why, I don't know how. I'm still
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looking into that because it was part of the 60s scoop.
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She had been in and out of foster homes and
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institutions filled with abuse for most of her life.
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Because, um, Back then, when you ran away, you had
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30 days to stay AWOL before they would release you
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from that institution. So I forcibly got myself released from
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that institution and I was running away. And then my
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social worker put me in another institution and I stayed
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there for about a year and I did the same thing.
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Winnipeg has a long and broken history with Indigenous people.
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There are countless examples where the institutions and authorities that
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many take for granted for protection and care have failed them.
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This is something Nadine experienced firsthand on the streets as
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a child.
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When I first started out there, I was 11. And
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the younger I was, the more richer the men were.
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There was a lot of seats. Now I can identify
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a couple of those guys. Politicians or cops. A lot
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of rich businessmen.
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There were also men from the provincial legislature.
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And one of the times, one of the suits took
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me into the ledge in the basement and gave somebody
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a fucking blowjob in the basement of the ledge. And
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I remember that. And I blocked it out.
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On multiple occasions, Nadine says it was members of the
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Winnipeg police who were abusing her.
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There was one time I got pulled over with a trick.
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And because his brother was a cop, they let him
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take me. They didn't arrest him. They didn't take me
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out of that situation. And they let him have his
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way with me. And I was a child out there.
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I got charged numerous times for prostitution as a child. Arrested,
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brought before the courts. And it was on my record.
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One day, a wealthy-looking man in flashy clothes found her
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on the street.
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He pulled up in a black Jaguar with his leather jacket,
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blue jeans, cowboy boots, and a white button-up. And I
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didn't know who he was because I was a child. Like,
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all I knew at the time was the street. And
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so he picked me up, we negotiated, we went around
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the block, and then he drove me to the compound.
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The man assaulted her. Months later, he came by a
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second time.
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I think it was in the same summer. He drove
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me to his compound. We went inside the warehouse part
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and he locked the door behind us. And I was thinking,
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oh my God, he's going to do something to me.
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Like my instincts just like heightened. And then he took
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me into his bedroom and he locked the door. And
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then I started panicking because I knew like something was up.
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And I'm a little girl, like I don't know what
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the hell this guy is going to do. And so
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he told me to take off my top. He had
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his pants unzipped. And then he pulled something out of
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his pocket and he put it on his hand. I
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didn't know what it was. And he made me, he
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forced me to fucking take coke. I just remember feeling
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scared after. Like, I don't feel right. What the fuck
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is this? And yeah, that was my first introduction to
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that drug. And I was 13.
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As a trafficked child living on the streets of Winnipeg,
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Nadine had no idea who that man was when he
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assaulted her. But decades later, when Nygaard became international news.
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Reports say Nygaard was arrested last night and is now
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in custody in Winnipeg.
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More than 50 women have accused Nygaard of sexual assault,
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claims that date all the way back to the 1970s.
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Nadine made the connection.
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When this night guard hit the media, I was just
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like all nonchalant. I'm like, oh yeah, he's a fucking pervert.
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He used to pick me up on kitty track. And
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then it dawned on me like, oh my God, this
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guy is a fucking, he's a predator. He's a pervert.
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I was getting mad and I'm like, I'm going to
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fucking charge him. Nobody else does it. I'm going to.
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Nadine met with authorities in 2020.
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It took a lot for me to go to the
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police because they were the ones that were criminalizing me
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for it for years.
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She was one of at least eight women to report
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Nygaard to the police in Winnipeg. We interviewed four of
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them for this podcast, including April Tleck. You first heard
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from her in episode four.
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I reached out to the Winnipeg police and had, I think, two,
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maybe three lengthy discussions on the phone. And then the
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detectives flew out to Vancouver and to interview me and
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my mother on camera. And I thought, oh my goodness,
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stuff is going to happen. Finally, it's going to happen.
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Casey Allen is another of those women.
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I phoned the Winnipeg cop shop and said, I'm coming
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in and I'm pressing charges. And they seemed surprised and ill-equipped.
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as they have been all along. You go in, and
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one of them goes into the next room to tape
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and record it. You don't see the cameras or the mic.
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And then they review. The only follow-up question they had was,
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how much had I been drinking?
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That's it.
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That was the only clarification they wanted. The biggest lack
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of respect I have been shown throughout this process by
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the justice system in Manitoba is a lack of communication.
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I certainly didn't get the sense I was supported. Victim services,
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you get voice messages. So you flay your soul in
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front of strangers and they hold that in their hands
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and you put it out there and nothing comes back.
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Several months passed before the women heard about the results
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of their complaints to police. Then, one by one, they
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received phone calls from prosecutors in Winnipeg.
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He will not be charged here.
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I know this isn't the answer you were looking for,
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but we only pursue cases we think we can win.
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And that just broke my heart, man. It gave me
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no faith in the justice system.
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We asked the Crown Prosecutor's Office in Winnipeg why nothing
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was happening. They declined to talk to us. We asked
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the police chief for an interview, also a no-go, but
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he did provide a statement. Finally, official confirmation. After a
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10-month investigation that involved reviewing 15 files, 8 cases were found.
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were referred by police for potential prosecution. In the end,
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no charges were laid.
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Makes me want to shut down. And I did shut down.
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And I was like, I gave you guys everything I
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told you, how it looked inside, the car that he drove,
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what he was wearing, and what happened. I said, that
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should be clarification enough. They said, we need concrete evidence.
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We can't go by historical, because it's historical. And then
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they said, one significant point is because I didn't know
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who he was at the time. But now I know
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who he is, and now I'm saying something, so they
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have a contradiction right there. How was I supposed to
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know who he was? I didn't know until after, until
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my flashbacks and stuff were coming back to me.
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I knew the second I gave my statement, nothing was
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going to happen. I knew I was going there to
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hear No, we're not taking this case any further. Who
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the heck wants to have him charged here? And it
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traced back that he had all these people in his pocket,
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all these people.
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Covering up for him. There were pictures of him in
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the papers all the time with politicians, politicians, There were
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so many powerful people that he was photographed with.
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It feels to me like Winnipeg is rewarding Nygaard in
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a way for keeping us quiet for so long with
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the intimidation.
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Tactics that he used.
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What message does that send to other victims of sex
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assault and to other predators?
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Oh, guess what?
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Keep them quiet long enough, it'll go away.
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In an earlier episode, we told you about the milestone
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Peter Nygaard's company celebrated in 2018. It was its 50th
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anniversary in Winnipeg. We now know this was also the
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50th anniversary of his very first rape charge in the city.
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And eight years earlier, the CBC had broadcast its first
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documentary about Nygaard, revealing widespread workplace abuse and reports of
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sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. Still, Winnipeg embraced their hometown hero.
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My guest on the runway today really needs no introduction.
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Internationally acclaimed fashion mogul Peter Nygaard joins us today. Welcome
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back to Winnipeg.
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It's so nice to be home.
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Well, we're so happy to have you here, and you're
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celebrating a big year because this is 50 years for
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your success now, I guess.
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I can't believe it.
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It's been 50 years.
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It just went by like that.
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The women he'd attacked in the city watched on as 1,800
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people attended a gala in his honor. The Winnipeg Free
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Press called it a party that would rival any Hollywood bash.
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Among the celebrities and dignitaries, country star Tanya Tucker, Winnipeg's mayor,
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and the current premier of Manitoba, Finnish hockey star Timo
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Solani sent his regards by video. Living in Winnipeg, it's
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impossible to miss that Nygaard had friends in high places.
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That wasn't lost on the women he raped either. It
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helps explain why so many women didn't feel safe reporting
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him there. Perhaps they feared what's now happening to the
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other survivors attacked in Winnipeg who decided to tell their
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stories to authorities. Survivors like April Tleck.
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When you tell your truth, which is the truth, there's
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no reason for us to lie about this. When you
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tell it and someone listens and hears you and believes you,
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and the justice system going to bat for you, and
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doing the right thing, finally making this man be held
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accountable for what he did, it is huge.
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Which is exactly how it's playing out in Toronto right now,
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where Nygaard is currently in custody, charged with raping six
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women there.
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So bravo to those Toronto peeps who got this going,
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and my survivor sisters.
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Out there, it's a big, big win for them. It's
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a big win for all of us, really.
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It's a big win, the acknowledgement of what he's done
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to so many. And on the other side of that coin,
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when you tell your truth, which is the truth, and
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you have a massive body of evidence and corroborators, and
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you're not supported It's like getting gutted all over again.
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It's really horrible.
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Serena Hicks is now looking towards the courts in New
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York for healing. That's where a civil class action lawsuit
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has been launched on behalf of survivors everywhere.
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I'm hoping that when it happens down in the States
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that I can stand outside that courthouse. I don't need
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to hear guilty because I know he's guilty. But I
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just need a place to stand and say I'm a
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survivor at that point.
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Because so far I've not been fully surviving this.
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Give me that opportunity to stand outside a courthouse and
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say I'm a survivor now.
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For Nadine Moustous, nothing will take the sting out of
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how let down she feels by her city and the
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authorities she hoped would help her find justice.
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Self-care is essential right now. But so is getting all
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these memories, all these flashbacks, all these predators that did
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that to me as a child. A lot of the
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predators I can't remember, but the ones I can. After
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night guard makes me want to shut down. Because those
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charges didn't go through what makes me think the other
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ones are going to go through. Like this city holds
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a lot of fucking secrets and a lot of men
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in this city have done it to women for years.
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Indigenous girls, indigenous women. And they've gotten away and this
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is another way that the justice system is just letting
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it fucking get away with it.
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The survivor who was raped by Peter Nygaard in 1984
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after trying to get help from the Winnipeg police hopes
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to find meaning in the failures.
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I don't want this to bring my city to its knees.
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I don't want the shame of that man, the stain
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of that man to be what defines this city. I
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want how we overcame this to be our legacy, not
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what he left behind for us to clean up. I
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want this city to be able to forgive itself and
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to recognize that
what happened, not in a punitive fashion,
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not in a vengeful way, look back and dissect how
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this Frankenstein was stitched together so that we never recreate
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another one.
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Today, Nygaard has been sitting in a jail cell, first
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in Winnipeg and now in Toronto, for more than a year.
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He applied for bail again in Toronto, and again it
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was denied. He's also waiting for Canada's justice minister to decide.
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Will he face the Canadian charges first, or be sent
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to New York, where he's accused of sex trafficking? Nygaard
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continues to deny all of the allegations against him, saying
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they are all lies and part of a conspiracy to
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destroy him and his reputation. I recently spoke to one
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of the women in Toronto whose case has resulted in charges.
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On the very day she got that news, it was
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an emotional conversation. She told me for decades it's felt
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like she's had an internal wound that just wouldn't heal.
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Until now. Hope for that same kind of justice in
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Winnipeg has evaporated. The survivors there may never get to
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know how that feels. If anything you've heard in this
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episode has left you looking for someone to talk to,
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please visit cbc.ca slash uncover. We have a number of
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resources there for those in need of help and support.
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Evil by Design is a co-production between CBC Podcasts and
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The Fifth Estate. There's a new three-part premium documentary TV
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series based on this podcast. Evil by Design, Surviving Nygaard
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tells the stories of those who survived Peter Nygaard. Uncovering
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decades of sexual assault, the series investigates the culture that
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kept it hidden and explores how whistleblowers finally helped bring
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him down. Watch Evil by Design, Surviving Nygaard, streaming now
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on CBC Gems. This episode was written and produced by
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Ashley Mack and me, Timothy Sawa. Our associate producers were
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Sarah Melton and Eunice Kim. With assistance from Scott Anderson,
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Lynette Fortune and Rachel Ward at The Fifth Estate. Mixing
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and sound design by Evan Kelly and Graham MacDonald. With
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technical assistance from Laura Antonelli, Aranda Williams and Tim Lorimer.
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Special thanks goes to David Downey, Bob McEwen and Laura
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Mullen for her reading of Jane Doe. Additional material from
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CTV News and Global News. Emily Connell is our digital producer.
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Original music by Olivia Pasquarelli. Fact-checking by Emily Mathieu. Legal
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advice from Sean Mormon. Our senior producer at CBC Podcasts
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is Chris Oak. And the director of CBC Podcasts is
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Araf Noorani. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca slash podcasts.