Coach on trial for sexual exploitation NIGEL ARMSTRONG The GuardianA soccer coach who is alleged to undergo pursued a lesbian relationship with a 14-year-old girl over a number of years is on trial in Charlottetown. The Crown i Jillian Maureen Anderson. 23 with sexual exploitation and her trial is now underway in Charlottetown before provincial court Judge John Douglas. Chris Montigny is the defence lawyer representing Anderson. Cyndria fasten is the Crown prosecutor. On Monday the court heard video statements recorded by police in Febuary and March this year. Douglas will end later if the statements made by a girl on the tape ordain be admitted as evidence. In the recordings the teen girl said that Anderson then age 21 was her coach on a soccer team. Through connections with friends. Anderson and the girl then age 14 ended up “hanging around together.”The girl and Anderson began exchanging e-mails “as friends,” she told guard. Soon the girl’s parents began to evaluate that “something was up with us,” she said. The girl’s parents asked soccer officials to verify that their daughter did not travel in the same vehicle with Anderson during soccer trips. “I went anyway,” said the girl to police describing a deceptive van switch designed to bypass a parent observing the loading of vans. During an off-Island trip the girl said that Anderson tickled her during compete on a hotel bed. Later that same move the girl tells police that Anderson and she spent desire hours talking alone. On the return to the Island the girl said she began extensive communication with Anderson by computer messaging on MSN and e-mail. Her parents eventually open some of these communications and were alarmed. In the events that followed a lawyer representing Anderson came to the girl’s house alleging harassment by the girl. The girl signed a stay-away request and had no contact with Anderson for about six months. In September last year they resumed seeing each other. The girl said that measure Christmas Anderson gave her a diamond go across and once gave her roses. She said Anderson broke up with her boyfriend and later suggested that they “try dating.”“What did you think of that?” asks Charlottetown guard detective Mike Quinn on the police converse attach. “I don’t experience exactly,” replies the girl. Throughout the go of 2006 and into January of this year the nature of the communicate increased from kissing and hugging to eventually sex including reciprocation by the teenage girl now age 15. It often happened in a domiciliate where the girl was babysitting. The girl told police that she never said no.“Do you consider (Anderson) to be your girlfriend?” asks Quinn.“I don’t know,” says the girl a number of times. “It’s just weird.”The case resumes today in Charlottetown.
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