The victim of sexual assault swears to “fight with teeth and nails” to prevent the attacker from her pain

A woman who was brutally attacked and raped by Sofyan Balag, when she was 15, says she deserves no compensation after being violently attacked at a federal prison.

“I will fight the teeth and the nail. Whether it is a civil process against him, or whatever I have to do, but I refuse to let him see a cent years, which can “be identified due to a publication prohibition ordered by the court.

“I don’t let him take advantage of the pain he challenged me and other women.”

In 2016, Boalag was convicted of three charges of sexual assault with a weapon committed against three different victims, two robbery charges, a number of forbidden weapon, a number of resistance to committing an offense, trying to blow the victim and a number of resistance to arrest.

In 2017, the court also declared a dangerous offender and pronounced an indeterminate sentence.

Balag appealed to the latter decision to the Supreme Court of Canada, who rejected his request in 2021.

Yes, they could never go again, but he returns to a safety in another prison … If there is something, I would like to shake anyone’s hand.-The victim of Sofyan Boalag

In a process initiated in January, Balag argues that, on February 3, 2023, the staff in a federal prison in Renus, NB, opened the doors to all the cells in a simultaneous corridor, so that the detainees can be aligned for drugs.

Boalag says he was attacked from behind and stabbed repeatedly. He says his wounds means he will never walk again.

His trial claims that the prison staff has failed to prevent the weapons from entering the unit, not to seek prisoners before allowing them to align and ignore internal politics, leaving more detainees in their cells at the same time.

Who is the victim?

The 28 -year -old woman says she refuses to allow Boalag to be depicted as a victim.

“He is not a victim because he was injured in prison. He got in prison. He put in this position to meet this. He raped more women,” she said. “I don’t like it when it is in the center of attention. I want the victims to be heard. I want everyone to remember who he is and what he has done.”

The victim says he is able to talk about what happened to her without being re-traumatized.

“In 2012, I was walking my dog ​​on Lemarchant road before work and someone came behind me. I only had one chills up to a kind of spine and so I just went to pass and grabbed me and threatened my life and then sexually assaulted me on an alley behind a house, “she said.

She says she is still recovering from the attack.

“It has taken me for years to get where I am comfortable with me again. For years I used to wash my body with hot water until it was red because I felt dirty, as if I had something to be ashamed, when it wasn’t “I didn’t wear it, it was his” , she said. “Because he is the one who did that, not me.”

But he still believes that Boalag, who was moved from the Atlantic Institution of the New Brunswick to another federal unit in Ontario, injured -irretrievably.

“I have emotional wounds that will never heal. Yes, they could never go, but I can’t go on the streets without looking over my shoulder. I don’t go anywhere, not from 15 years old. Some Of these wounds will never heal, “she said.

“Yes, they could never go again, but he returns to a safety in another prison, and now he wants to try to monopolize this. “She said.

Clock | 28 years ago, this woman says she wants Sofyan Boalag’s crimes to be remembered:

She says that Boalag did not show any remorse for what he did and that he promises to do everything he can to keep him in prison.

“Twelve and a half years have passed, and he still does not assume any responsibility. I deal with every condition of conditional freedom, I make an impact statement on the victim at every conditioned freedom hearing. To this day, he sees nothing in Irregular with what he did for a 15 -year -old child and other women, “she said.

The website of the Public Security of the Federal Government says that “an offender who executes an indefinite punishment is eligible for freedom of freedom on seven years from the date when they were arrested. Eligibility does not mean automatic release. –

For anyone who has been sexually assaulted, there is support available through crisis lines and local assistance services through The conclusion of the Association of Violence in Canada Database. If you are in immediate danger or fear for your safety or others around you, please call 911.

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