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May 10, 2017

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Part One - RE: My Sexual Assault Case

1. In August 2007 a Canadian Soldier asked me to help him advocate his right to see his children.
He told me that he was being alienated after returning home from Afghanistan and that his wife
had been cheating on him in the process.

2. What he concealed from me was that he had been previously charged with alleged
sodomy/sexual assault in another Country, and that he had further been convicted with sexual
and/or domestic charges against his wife. He was therefore, as I understand it, living in the
CFB Kingston barracks subject to various legal conditions. I'm not sure how he remained to be
a member of the Canadian Forces at this point but he obviously was for whatever reason(s).

3. Although we had met at a public establishment in downtown Kingston Ontario, I didn't mind
driving this Soldier and his friend, also a Soldier, home to the barracks upon their request. I
went into the barracks to leave my contact information but before I left I was sexually
assaulted.

4. After the assault I was in shock. I tried to drive home but realized that I needed to go to the
hospital, though I couldn't quite tell what was wrong with me. I kept pulling over along side the
road and I seem to recall passing out several times while trying to make it home. Finally, I felt
that I had no choice and I pulled into the parking lot at Kingston General Hospital. I walked into
the hospital and stated that I did not know what was wrong with me but that I had just been
sexually assaulted. I was instantly swarmed with a team of health care professionals who soon
told me that I needed emergency surgery. I didn't know what was happening.

5. I remember that I was in the operating room and I was moments away from being 'put under'
when I saw my Husband walk through into the operating room in scrubs. He had made it just in
time! When I saw him I fell apart. We had time to embrace, to share a kiss and to share some
sentimental words before I had surgery. At that point, I figured that I wasn't going to make it
although I didn't even really understand what was wrong with me. I was in total shock.

6. When I woke up in recovery I was so grateful, albeit very confused and alarmed. I was
informed that I would be spending the next couple of days in the hospital and I was
encouraged to make a report to the Police. At first, I didn't want to make the Report, but I did
when I was reminded that the same thing could happen to someone else if I didn't make him
accountable. So, I authorized the KGH staff to request that a Police Officer attend the hospital
to speak with me.

7. The hospital staff had requested that the Police present themselves to the Nurses Station
before entering my hospital room. The Police Officer that attended ignored this request and
arbitrarily came to question me one on one. It was a female Police Officer and she attempted
to put several words in my mouth. She made me very uncomfortable. The hospital staff were
very upset to learn that the Officer had come to see me without speaking to them. When I read
the Officer's Report I was very shocked and dismayed to learn that she had written an report
that did not properly reflect what I had told her. I could not understand how the Officer could
have made such blatant mistakes.

8. After my release from the hospital, a Military Officer called me to introduce himself and to tell
me that he had been assigned to my case. I got along well with this Officer and he did most of
the interviews and the line-up identification for the Court Case. After I made a positive
identification, the Officer informed me that he had made an arrest and that the alleged offender
was being held in custody until trial. The Soldier was eventually charged with:

1. Sexual Assault
2. Aggravated Sexual Assault
3. Forcible Confinement
4. Uttering Threats
5. Breach of Recognizance

9. When I went to Kingston for a Preliminary Court Hearing I went out to dinner with my Husband
afterwards. It was a stressful day. We had rented a motel to go back to when we were finished
dinner. I was feeling very sick and overwhelmed so I asked my Husband to unlock the car so
that I could go sit in it until he was ready to leave the establishment. He and an acquaintance
were finishing up a game of pool. While I was sitting in the backseat of my car, two Kingston
City Police Officers abruptly knocked on my window and demanded to be let in. I opened the
door and was swiftly arrested. I was handcuffed, shackled and then they ran a chain between
the shackles and the cuffs and when they picked me up I swore they busted both of my
shoulders. They took me back to the station and before the night was over I was pepper
sprayed, beaten and then sprayed with freezing cold water from a portable power washer. It
was pure torture while I was in their care. When my Husband finally tracked down my
whereabouts and picked me up the next morning he was furious to see how mangled my body
was. I had a scheduled doctors appointment that same morning and when I attended it my
doctor called the O.P.P and requested that they meet us at the hospital for a forensic exam.
We did the exam and a formal complaint, however, nothing ever came of it.

10. The actual Trial finally rolled around nearly a year and a half later. The Accused had been held
in custody the whole time. The Defence Lawyer ate me alive on the stand, so to speak. I have
no words for what kind of person this man must be. He ran me in circles until I literally had no
idea what I was saying anymore. At any rate, I was never caught lying, mainly because I was
telling the absolute truth, but the Defence Lawyer seriously made it seem as though he had
caught me telling some sort of significant untruth. He certainly got away with putting way too
many words in my mouth and distorting the simple facts. It was such a disgusting shit show!

11. The Defence Attorney attacked me so ruthlessly and obviously that the Crown Attorney and the
Victim/Witness Support Worker actually bawled their eyes out with me after my testimony. Both
of them said that they had never seen anything like that in an alleged Court of Law before.
They were shocked beyond words. The Military Officer was also shaking his head in utter
disbelief.

12. The Crown Attorney presented my bloody and torn under clothes. She also presented one of
my broken finger nails found in the Defendants room. She further presented a Doctor and a
Nurse who provided expert testimonies on my behalf. The Military Police had completed a full,
in-depth investigation and remained involved with the case over the year and a half that we
waited for the trial. The Defendant had prior similar charges but this fact wasn't admissible in
Court. There wasn't much more that could've been provided to ensure a successful conviction
but something went terribly wrong somewhere...

13. Irregardless of any evidence presented, the Defendant ended up being found not guilty on all
charges except the Breach of Recognizance. Again, the Crown Attorney, the Victim/Witness
Support Worker and the Military Officer were mind blown. The Defendant walked, in what the
newspaper called an unprecedented event, straight from the Court House as a free man after
being held in jail for the past year and a half. Just like that, on the ruling of one idiot on the
Bench, an obvious predator was set free.

14. I believe that a successful prosecution was thwarted through Masonic connections. The
Defendant opted to forego trial by jury and therefore his fate was to be arbitrarily decided by a
Judge. I consider that the Defence Lawyer and the sitting Judge might very well be
Freemasons.

15. I believe that this case was controlled. Would the Canadian Forces really want this sort of stuff
leaking out? Why did they never assume any accountability in the matter? The obviously
discharged him after he was charged in my case, so what did they know that the rest of us
didn't? I think there's a bit more to the story perhaps...

16. The Kingston Whig Standard covered the trial. My Mother had told me that the articles were
worded in a way that seemed to discredit me. It therefore took me years to finally look the
articles up. When I finally read them I could not believe how they seemed to lead the public to
believe that I was lying and attacking an innocent solider. My identity was supposed to be
protected and yet the particular journalist writing the articles seemed to throw out every single
possible identify fact possible about me. It seemed as though the journalist was further trying to
paint a biased picture of what was really going on in the trial that week.

17. In 2010 I was informed, by the Military Officer that handled my case, that the former Soldier
had re-offended and that he was being held in Ottawa waiting. There was also speculation that
he could be transferred to the United States to stand trial for the historical accusation against
him of sodomy/sexual assault.

18. At a later date in 2010, the same Officer informed me that the former Soldier had, once again
been freed from custody, without a conviction. The Officer also stated that he believed that I
had been officially updated but I never received official updates, it was only through him that I
was getting any information at all about the potential whereabouts of or the occurrences with
this guy.

19. It was all too much for me to deal with. I've never tried to gain any further accountability in this
matter as I've been incapacitated, for various reasons, since it happened.

20. I wasn't able to put it all together at the time but it seems to me, in hindsight, that events were
being orchestrated during this period. I was actively advocating the issues that children were
being raped in local foster care homes. I began to endure intense systematic oppression
during this same period. The rape itself. The sneakiness and the false report written by the
Kingston City Police Officer. The Police brutality and abrupt arrest. The way the Judge and the
Defence Lawyer owned the Courtroom. The way the Reporter seemed to set me up. The fact
that the Defendant walked with so much evidence against him. The way the system refused to
support me like it does so many others. The shock and awe from the professionals who did
sincerely attempt a conviction. It's all too much to disregard as mere coincidence in my opinion.

21. He told me that he had nowhere to hide my body otherwise I would not be leaving the barracks
that night. I verily believe what he told me! In my opinion, there was/is something very broken
in his mind.

22. The first police officer that was assigned to the case was an outright bitch and an outright liar.
She generated a false report and this is why I eventually chose for the Canadian Forces do the
investigation as opposed to the Kingston City Police. It was obvious to me from the very
beginning that Kingston City Police were attempting to make me look bad from the start so I
did not want them working the case at all.

23. Matt Hodgson and Michael Quigley are horrible people, in my opinion. The whole show was
run by these two dick heads. They put words in the witnesses mouths and ridiculed them and
shut them down when they made statements beneficial to the Crown. The Assistant Crown told
me that she had never seen anything like my case. The Judge and the Defence Lawyer were
out of line throughout the whole case in my opinion. It was the shit show of all shit shows.

24. I had not understood how my blood/alcohol levels could've possibly been what they were on
the evening of the assault. Though Matt Hodgson would berate me for such a 'choosy' recall,
the fact is, I can't help what I recall, how I recall it, where, or when it happens. Mr. Hodgson will
have to forgive me, and seemingly millions of other trauma survivors, and accept that memory
issues are simply a part of trauma. I'm certainly not the first, or the last, person who will have a
severely affected memory, especially for details as minor as the ones that Matt Hodgson
fixated on. He simply found my week spot and he hammered away at me and the Judge
seemingly let him do as he pleased. I eventually later recalled that I had frantically gulped
several ounces from a large glass while I was retrieving my belongings from another room, just
before fleeing the building, because I felt overwhelmingly dehydrated after the assault. I was in
total shock. I assume, in retrospect, that the large glass of liquid that I drank was nearly pure
alcohol because of the intensity of the burn that I can now, so vividly, recall and by the volume
of alcohol in my blood by the time I was tested at the hospital. Had I drank the alcohol earlier in
the night as opposed to later one would assume that my blood/alcohol levels would've been
much lower, if at all detectable.

25. I had admitted to drinking up to only a couple of drinks at maximum throughout the whole
evening and the Defence Lawyer could not demonstrate otherwise. He nevertheless kept
hammering away on the issue until I was so confused and agitated that I couldn't go on. The
guy literally ran me in circles until I didn't know what I was saying anymore. It was utter and
total abuse and the judge just let it happen. I don't care how it 'looked' or how Matt Hodgson
made it appear to look, the fact is that he never once caught me lying and had he caught me
lying I'm pretty sure that he would've publicly destroyed me. Plain and simple. Matt Hodgson is
very good at what he does but that doesn't change the fact that he's a completely immoral
douche bag in my opinion. Let's face it. If I was caught lying at any point in the trial I think it's
safe to say that I would've faced some accountability measures, especially for having a
Canadian Soldier locked up for over a year and half on lies, and I think the Soldier would've
come back at me for damages. Whatever. It is what it is. The minor details that they focused on
in court was so pathetic while all of the major evidence was overlooked. I totally accuse the
Judge and the Defence Lawyer of working together to throw the case.

26. Despite the ample evidence everything seemed to boil down to my poor memory. Well excuse
me if my brain was affected by trauma. I guess I was expected to respond to trauma differently
than most people do. Still, except for very minor variations in my recall, I was always consistent
with the facts that really mattered. Badgering me over whether I had one and a half beer or one
and three quarters? Really? What a Goddamned bloody crock of shit! My injuries and
statements lined up perfectly with expert testimony and the whole case was investigated in-
depth by the Military Police to begin with. There was enough evidence from the beginning to
hold this guy in jail and enough evidence for him to be charged with serious crimes yet he
walks once Quigley and Hodgson take over? Total bullshit!

27. I did not whine and cry about this sexual assault. I dealt with it and I did my best to get over it.
Still, I fear that he is out there violating others and that something should be done about that.

28. It took me a long time to get the courage to speak out about this. There are so many females
out there who cry false rape, which discredits the genuine cases. Then there are so many
misogynists who flat out denounce and, all too often, ridicule any woman who gets assaulted. I
understand false allegations, they piss me off too, but when there's actual evidence that a
person was assaulted I think a person must be coming from a pretty screwed up place to be
able to minimize something like that. There comes a time to stand up and that time, for me, is
now.

29. I did not allow this unfortunate event to generate a personal imbalance. I do not hate men, nor
did I develop hatred or disrespect for the average Soldier. Some people, I'm sure, would
wonder how I can claim to be balanced after a crisis such as this, especially without supports
as I claim, and with everything else that was going on in my life at the time. The truth is that I'm
not 'normal' any longer. I don't tend to think or act like the average person, and never will
again. The assault and the events to follow taught me a lot about people and the systems that
employ them. It was all part of the painful process of awakening.

30. One last thing that I feel important to mention is how I was treated by others throughout this
whole ordeal. Because of the picture that was painted throughout the rape trial and all of the
gossip that was generated because of it I was treated like a dirty liar who was attacking a
decent Canadian Soldier for no good reason. The public wasn't informed about his previous
charges, nor did the newspaper report until the very end, that he had been discharged from the
Forces. Had the public been aware of those things I'm sure that a different perception would've
been generated and I might have had a little more support and understanding from others. But
that wasn't the case and I ended up enduring so much with so few supports. I was tossed
aside, even by many in my own family, as a deceitful and dirty troublemaker. It was honestly
the hardest thing to go through. It eventually caused problems in my marriage and my whole
world fell apart while everyone seemed to think I deserved it somehow. It was very hard to
endure and I'm not sure how a person one degree weaker than myself could ever pull through
such an ordeal. There really are no words for the hell I went through and I should hope that no
one would ever have to go through something similar.

31. In May of 2016 I began a Claim with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. Mr. Jason
Easton agreed to represent me in this matter on a contingency agreement. I haven't heard
anything from Mr. Easton in this regard since September 2016. Houston, I think we have a
problem...

Part Two - RE: Mr. Jason Easton Kafka and Kort Law Office

32. On May 14, 2016 the Law Office of Kafka and Kort was advertising a free clinic to assist with
claims to the Ontario Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB). I attended the clinic at 14
Bridge Street, West in Belleville, Ontario. I video recorded the duration of my time at the clinic
and subsequently audio and/or video recorded all meetings thereafter.

33. Mr. Pieter Kort greeted me and heard the basis of my Claim when I first arrived at the Legal
Clinic at approximately 11:30am on May 14, 2016. Mr. Kort said that he felt that his Colleague,
Mr. Jason Easton, was best suited to handle the Claim. Mr. Kort subsequently referred me to
Mr. Easton who met promptly met with me that same day.

34. While meeting with Mr. Easton in the Board Room Mr. Kort and his parents interrupted to have
a view of the new office and back deck. I didn't mind, I had developed a liking for Mr. Kort from
our prior Attorney/Client relationship, and the interruption indicated to me that Mr. Kort was as
comfortable with me now as he had ever seemed to be. I felt like he must have put me in good
hands when referring me to Mr. Easton, though, at this point, I was honestly hoping that Mr.
Kort would represent me.
35. When Mr. Easton and I got to task I explained to him that I do not trust Lawyers and that, in
fact, Mr. Kort was the only Lawyer in the world that I trusted at all and that I further had any
amount of respect for due to my own historical experiences. Mr. Easton told me that I could
trust him too. I sighed and said we'll see.

36. Mr. Easton said that he felt that we could be successful with a claim to the CICB and we
therefore filled out the necessary paper work that authorized him to initiate a claim on my
behalf to the CICB, on a contingency basis. He also took some of my paperwork for the file,
such as hospital and doctor reports.

37. I tried to explain to Mr. Easton that I was the target of a criminal conspiracy due to my efforts
as a Child and Family Welfare Advocate. I told Mr. Easton that many of the issues in my life
were complicated and interconnected and that my CICB was likely to snowball into a confusing
mess as we moved forward on the Claim. On this same day, Mr. Easton and I further
discussed how he could potentially represent my two adult children, on contingency, with their
own respective issues.

38. I sent Mr. Easton an Email to remind him that contacting me via Email was the best way to
reach me. I also thanked him for meeting with me and confirmed to him that I was following is
instruction in creating a written Statement to accompany the CICB Application that he agreed
to file on my behalf.

39. On June 1, 2016 Mr. Easton sent me an Email stating that his colleague had unsuccessfully
attempted to book an appointment for me to meet with him and that he requested to know if I
was still interested in pursuing the Claim that we had initiated. On June 5, 2016 I apologized,
via Email, to Mr. Easton for my delay. I promptly scheduled an appointment to meet with him
on June 13, 2016.

40. I attended the office at 14 Bridge Street West in Belleville on June 13, 2016 and was further
told that I was at the wrong office and to present myself at the Firm's other Law Office at 309
Front Street in Belleville. When Mr. Easton and I finally met that day, he told me that he had
read the newspaper reports that I sent to him regarding the incident that lead to my claim and
that it was obvious, to him, that I had been railroaded, so to speak. I gave him a written
Statement that he had asked me to prepare and we did a basic overview of it together. He said
that he was confident that we would be successful with the Claim. Mr. Easton backed up his
confidence by saying that he doesn't like to work for free and that he wouldn't have taken my
case in the first place if he didn't think we could be successful.

41. Mr. Easton asked me why I thought that matters turned out the way that they did with the
sexual assault case that lead up to my CICB Claim and I told him, without hesitation, that I felt
that the turn out in this particular matter was due to Masonic connections in the Judicial
System. Mr. Easton looked at me strangely and then said ya, but why do you think the Court
didn't convict him? To which I said because it suited the Masonic agenda. You have to see
the bigger picture here Jason.

42. I tried to make it clear to Mr. Easton that I felt that I was caught up in a conspiracy because of
my work as a Child Protection Advocate. I told him that this conspiracy also affected my
children, who are now adults, and that they were interested in making their own Claims to the
CICB for their own various reasons.

43. When the meeting ended, Mr. Easton told me that he remained confident with the prospect of a
successful Claim in my case, though I wondered if things were about to go in another direction
now that I mentioned Masonic connections.

44. Mr. Easton's Colleague, Shayna M. Vos, and I Emailed each other a few times between July
and August 2016 for updates and/or corrections to my file. Ms. Vos acknowledged that it was
best for me to communicate with her via Email. A meeting was then scheduled for Mr. Easton
and I to meet on September 7 2016.

45. I attended the meeting with Mr. Easton. He said that he didn't know how, but that he had
overlooked something important on the written Statement that I had prepared for submission to
the CICB and that we would have to amend the Statement. I found Mr. Easton to be much less
friendly and much less understanding of my situation than he had been historically. Mr. Easton
rushed through the appointment and I started to sense that he was no longer as invested in my
matters. We made the amendment(s) that he felt were necessary and then he walked me out.
He said I can't get you justice but I can at least get you a good chunk of change. I thanked
Mr. Easton for his time and left.

46. Mr. Easton sent me an Email on September 13, 2016 and he said Brenda, There is one form
for which I forgot to get a signature. Please attend at the office as soon as possible to sign it. I
did what I could and I attended to Mr. Easton's request as promptly as possible. I eventually
got over to his office to sign the documents on September 19, 2016.

47. As of April 25, 1017, to the best of my knowledge, I have not received further communications,
whatsoever, from Mr. Jason Easton or anyone else from the Kafka & Kort Law Firm in regards
to my matters with the CICB.

48. Although we had discussed the prospect of having Mr. Easton represent my kids with their own
respective issues it never happened, though, albeit, Mr. Easton was never obligated to take
them on as clients. It's simply worth noting. I mean my kids have an open and shut case once it
actually gets started, in my opinion, and what Lawyer doesn't want that sort of easy money?

49. Why did I go to a Lawyer in the first place? Well, for starters, I trusted Pieter Kort and his Firm
happened to be offering a free clinic on CICB Claims. Next, I just didn't have the will or the
patience to deal with it all. I just figured that I'd leave all of the work to the Lawyer and deal with
the outcome either way. I never expect anything good to come out of Ontario's Social Justice
Tribunals so there's not much point in giving it any real effort. I can only document what
happens along the way. I believe that everything happens for a reason.

50. I intend to make an inquiry with the Kafka and Kort Law Firm regarding the status of my Claim
to the CICB. I expect that my Claim, for whatever reason, is not moving forward and that there
is some 'reason' as to why I wasn't informed.

51. My trust in the Kafka & Kort Law Firm is rapidly waning.

52. I remain incapacitated for various reasons. I have made Mr. Easton aware of, what I perceive
to be, an ongoing criminal conspiracy against me in my small hometown. Mr. Easton was
further informed that I was on a fixed income, that my health was poor, and that my life was
very unstable.

53. I no longer expect justice or accountability from any of the systems that purport to bring such
about. I merely exercise my alleged freedom of speech and then document future events as
they unfold thereafter.

54. I issue the above fifty-three (53) statements, without malice or purposeful deceit, as part of my
evolving personal Record of events.

In truth

Brenda Everall
brendaeverall@gmail.com

http://www.thewhig.com/2009/01/22/woman-tells-court-she-has-memory-lapses
http://www.thewhig.com/2009/01/23/medical-experts-testify-in-sex-assault-trial
http://www.thewhig.com/2009/01/24/former-member-of-armed-forces-freed-on-bail
http://www.thewhig.com/2009/01/27/former-forces-member-acquitted

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