B.C. Appeal Court allows lawsuit alleging underaged teen lured into sex by Aaron Husak
The B.C. Appeal Court overturned a lower court ruling that had thrown out a mother’s lawsuit. The mother alleges that an adult man lured her 17-year-old daughter into sex. The daughter has since died.
According to court documents obtained by Criminals Among Us, the girl met Aaron Walter Husak at a restaurant in July 2020. In the weeks that followed, he contacted her repeatedly and sought another meeting. She responded with expressions of discomfort about being alone with him, and concern about his age.
On August 13, 2020, she asked her mom for permission to go to a friend’s home on Sarsons Road in Kelowna for a barbeque. When the mother asked for the phone number of the friend’s parents, she provided Husak’s phone number.
The Sarsons Road home was owned by Husak’s friend, Cody Wyatt Stibbard.
The mother brought the teen to the Sarsons Road residence on the evening of August 13, 2020. Before leaving her there, she called the phone number Katelin had provided and spoke with Husak. Husak told the mother that he was the father of Katelin’s friend, and stated that his daughter was having friends over for a barbeque. He also told her that he would be at the residence to monitor the children and keep the teen safe. Based on what Husak told the mother, she left her daughter at the Sarsons Road residence.
Later that same evening, the mother called Husak to check in on the teen. When they spoke, he identified himself again as the father of her friend. The mother asked Husak to have the teen call her back, as she had been trying without success to call her directly. A few minutes later, he called and put her on the phone.
When the teen spoke with her mom, she asked for permission to spend the night at the Sarsons Road residence. The mother agreed.
Husak didn’t tell the mother that he didn’t own the Sarsons Road residence and that he was not the teen’s friend’s father. Rather, he knowingly and deliberately misrepresented himself to the mother as being a responsible parent that would look out for the teens best interests.
On August 14, 2020 at approximately 9:30 a.m., the mother’s husband attended at the Sarsons Road residence to pick up the teen but s he was not at the residence. Two adult males were present in the living room, drinking hard alcohol. They told the father that they did not know who the teen was and did not know where she might be.
The father and mother frantically searched for the teen.
At approximately 10:53 a.m., the girl called her mother from their family home, where she had been taken by a car service paid for by Husak. When the mother arrived at their home, she found the teen in an intoxicated, disturbed, and upset state.
The teen later told her mother that Husak was not her friend’s father and he did not own the Sarsons Road residence, nor were her friends with her at the residence. She also told her mother that Husak encouraged her to drink alcohol to excess; refused to take her home on her request and had rough intercourse with her multiple times, leaving bruising; transported her to his residence and confiscated her phone; and recorded her dancing naked at his direction, which recording he shared with his friends.
Following these disclosures, the mother took the teen to Kelowna General Hospital for a sexual assault assessment. The assessment embarrassed and upset Katelin and caused her pain. It also confirmed that she had engaged in sexual activity the night before.
On August 17, 2020, Husak was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting the teen and distributing an intimate image without consent. Crown counsel subsequently decided not to pursue the charges.
Husak filed his only case against the mother alleging the mother has defamed him in social media posts by calling him a rapist and sexual predator.
The teen girl has since died.
Last year, the mother’s lawsuit was thrown out by the B.C. Supreme Court. She was seeking damages for what she alleged was “fraudulent misrepresentation” pretending that he was her daughter’s friend’s dad and “negligent infliction of mental distress.”
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