Jury convicts Whati man of sexual assault for having sex with 13-year-old

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Posted By: May 21, 2019

A Whati man has been found guilty of sexual assault for having sex with a 13-year-old girl at his home in August, 2016.

A jury in Yellowknife, made up of eight men and four women, deliberated for about four hours on Friday before convicting Cory Nitsiza, 29.

This was actually the third trial on the offence for Nitsiza – the previous two ending in mistrials when the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict.

Nitsiza is currently not in custody pending his sentencing.

He is to be back in court on June 17 to set a date for sentencing.

Nitsiza’s lawyer tells CKLB that he’ll be asking for a sentence of between one and two years

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John McFadden
John has been in the broadcast journalism industry since the 1980s. He has been a reporter in Yellowknife since 2012 and joined CKLB in January of 2018. John covers the crime and court beat as well as reporting on other areas including politics, business, entertainment and sports. He won seven national community newspaper awards while he was a journalist with Northern News Services Limited (NNSL). John worked in Ontario before coming North including stints as a TV sportscaster in Peterborough and senior news writer for CBC and CTV in downtown Toronto.

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