Ex-cadet committed

sexual assault,
court rules

Cadet Lieutenant Kiecker, Cadet Commanding Officer of Whitehorse Cadet Camp in 2015, and
Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Claveau, Cadet Region Commanding Officer of Northwest Cadet
Region.
A former cadet was found guilty Wednesday of committing sexual assault on a fellow cadet at a
Whitehorse camp.
By Amy Kenny on July 22, 2016

A former cadet was found guilty Wednesday of committing sexual assault on a fellow
cadet at a Whitehorse camp.
Last summer, the defendant and the complainant were staff cadets at the cadet camp
on Fireweed Drive in the Mary Lake subdivision.

The names of both are covered by a publication ban.

Last week in youth court, the complainant testified he had returned from a night shift at
around 3 a.m. when the defendant approached his bunk, looking for a friend.
The defendant then lied down in bed beside the complainant and asked if he wanted to
play a game called awkward, the point of which is to win by doing something that gets
the other player to say awkward.
The complainant said he didnt want to play.
The defendant then touched the complainants groin over his pants before reaching into
the complainants pants and masturbating him.
During trial, the complainant testified that when the defendant touched him, he asked if
the complainant felt awkward.
The complainant said that, each time, he responded, yes, awkward and, each time,
asked the defendant to stop.
The defendant said he would if he could give the complainant a blow job.
The complainant testified he didnt consent to this, but the defendant removed the
complainants pants and gave him a blow job for 10 seconds.
The defendant then asked the complainant to pinky promise not to tell anyone.
While giving his decision on Wednesday, Judge Donald Luther said that he found the
complainant to be forthright and mostly honest in his testimony.
Judge Luther said that any discrepancies in testimony (including the location of the
complainants disclosure to another cadet, and the position of the defendant during the
blow job) didnt harm the complainants credibility.
He said that while he found the defendant to be the aggressor in the case, he found the
complainant foolish to have allowed the defendant to lie in his bed at that hour, and
foolish to have allowed the defendant to persuade him to play the game.
Judge Luther said that, up to that point, he found there was consent.
But things changed, he said, citing the complainants testimony that the defendant
begged the complainant to accompany him to the bathroom for, presumably, further
sexual activity.
At that point, Judge Luther said, the complainant was clearly no longer consenting.
In my opinion, there was an indirect threat implied when the defendant said, Ill stop if I
can give you a blow job for 30 seconds.

There was no consent for this act of fellatio, he said, finding the defendant guilty of
sexual assault.
Sentencing will take place on August.