WARNING: This article contains details of suicide and sexual abuse.
A man from Kamloops, B.C., convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting his niece while she was living with his family is now awaiting sentencing.
In May 2022, a jury found Nihal Maligaspe guilty on two of three counts of sexual assault dating back 20 years to when Dinushini Maligaspe was studying to be a nurse at Thompson Rivers University.
A previous publication ban on her name has been lifted at her request.
During a two-day sentence hearing in Kamloops Supreme Court, Justice Miriam Gropper heard the victim deliver a 10-page impact statement detailing how her “whole world came crashing down” the first time someone she considered
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