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A lawyer representing Dillon Dube, one of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who have been charged with sexual assault, suggested Monday that while someone slapped the complainant on the buttocks during a sexual encounter in Michael McLeod’s hotel room, the slap was “playful.”

During cross-examination on her seventh day of testifying, E.M., whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was questioned by Dube’s lawyer, Lisa Carnelos, about the events of June 18 and 19, 2018.

McLeod, Dube, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Callan Foote have been charged with sexually assaulting E.M. in McLeod’s hotel room following a Hockey Canada event in London, Ont. McLeod faces a second criminal charge of being a party to the offence. The players, who face up to 10 years in prison if they are convicted, have all pleaded not guilty.

Carnelos is the fourth of five lawyers to cross-examine E.M. and she began her time on Monday morning by suggesting that E.M. was “taunting and threatening” the “boys” and called them “p---ies” when they would not have sex with her.

The Crown has said that following a night of drinking and dancing at a bar in downtown London, E.M., who was then 20, returned with McLeod to his hotel room where they had consensual sex.

After that, E.M. has alleged that as many as 10 men visited McLeod’s hotel room over the course of the evening and that she was sexually assaulted by a number of them.

E.M., who is now 27, has also testified that several of the men suggested to E.M. that she put golf balls in her vagina and asked if she “could take” an entire golf club inside of her.

E.M. has testified that she took on a "porn star persona" to make it through the evening and has said that she cried and tried to leave the hotel room several times but players instead guided her back to a bed sheet that had been placed on the floor.

“You became upset when the boys would not take you up on your offers,” Carnelos suggested to E.M. on Monday.

“No, I explained that the anger and the frustration........

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