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N.S. flood victim surprised by apartment makeover | SaltWireHALIFAX, N.S. — A Ukrainian national has accepted responsibility for a sex attack on a Halifax student at her apartment building last January, sparing the young woman from having to testify about the terrifying experience.
The 24-year-old Halifax resident, who has been in custody since the day of the incident, will be sentenced in January.Crown attorneys Alicia Kennedy and Ben Hoskins said they will ask for a sentence well in excess of the two years required for incarceration in a federal penitentiary. “At that point, she became nervous and realized that something wasn’t right,” Kennedy said of the victim.
Bielinskyi kissed her and pulled the two jackets she was wearing up over her head, causing her to fear for her life. He pinched her nose, put his hands over her mouth and then put her in a chokehold as they continued to fight in the stairwell, and she bit his fingers at one point. Bielinkyi told her to stop yelling and, after she retrieved her phone and again tried to make a call, dragged her into a hallway. While she banged on an apartment door, desperately trying to get someone’s attention, Bielinskyi got on top of her, punched her and hit her head off the floor.
The woman, who had fled down the hallway, used a different stairwell to go upstairs to her apartment.The victim called 911 at 5:44 a.m. Halifax Regional Police had already responded to the building after receiving other calls.Kennedy said the victim’s physical injuries included a scratch on her nose and soreness all over, especially her forehead and the back of her head.
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