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The young woman had always followed the rules and did everything she was taught in self-defence classes on that life-altering night in June 2018. She had a friend walk her to the bus stop and had her phone at the ready. She was dragged into the bushes and forced down. Her attacker — Alex Lagasse — knocked her phone out of her hand and, when she screamed for her life, he covered her mouth with his hand, then went to unbutton her shorts. He threatened to kill her if she kept screaming.
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