Ontario’s highest court will hear a Crown appeal this week of a retired Chatham violin teacher’s acquittal by a judge who believed his evidence that he measured female students’ breast area not for a “sexual purpose” but to help them play better. Now 73, Trachy testified his intent was to help the students play better by being properly fitted for shoulder rests on their violins or violas. Article Continued BelowTrachy began teaching violin in 1960 and taught approximately 1,100 students until his retirement in 2009. Trachy was acquitted of the sexual offences alleged against him “because the trial judge affirmatively believed his account of the relevant interactions with his violin students decades ago,” the document states. “It is not for the appellate court to retry the case or substitute its credibility assessments for those of the trial judge,” the factum continues.

Source: thestar May 12, 2019 19:52 UTC