Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard

Jacob Hoggard, 37, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm and one count of sexual touching of a person under the age of ...

","type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"type":"textBreakPoint","insertAt":"contentEndBreakPoint"},{"text":"The trial continues." ,"type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"type":"slimcut"},{"text":"“I just wanted to be responsible and not break the law,” he said." ,"type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"text":"“I just wanted to know,” he said. ","type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"text":"“I enjoyed saying it, it was nice to hear back,” he said. ","type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"text":"He said the relationship was not “overly meaningful” to him and that he didn’t mean it. ","type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"text":"“Why did you want to know?” she said." He would save women’s names in his phone as men’s names and delete messages because he was often cheating on a long-term partner and enjoying the attention he got from women as a well-known musician, he said. ","type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"text":"“I’m pretty sure the age of consent in Canada is 16 years old,” he said. ,"type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"text":"Savard asked him what the age of consent in Canada is. ","type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"text":"“Why did you do that?” Hoggard’s lawyer Megan Savard asked." ,"type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"type":"textBreakPoint","insertAt":"contentMiddleBreakPoint"},{"type":"articleRelatedInlinePrimary"},{"text":"Hoggard said he knew the teenage fan was 16 at the time he invited her to the hotel room to have sex with him because he asked her when her birthday was “right away” when they first started having romantic and sexual conversations several months earlier. ","type":"text","isParagraph":true,"isHeading":false},{"type":"ad","heading":"ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW","name":"ArticleSecondBigBox","display":"medium-down","pos":"2","interstitial":true,"sizes":[[300,250]]},{"text":"He said the plan with each of the two complainants was to have sex in his hotel room and then to hang out afterwards, but he ended their time together early after having “fun” sex, he said."