Court documents outline sexual assault allegations against former Manitoba politician - BERITAJA

Court documents obtained by BERITAJA outline disturbing specifications of intersexual battle allegations against erstwhile Manitoba leader Scott Fielding.

Fielding, 54, was arrested and charged pinch intersexual battle by the Winnipeg Police Service connected March 26 successful relationship to an alleged incident 2 years prior.

Fielding was a furniture curate nether the erstwhile Manitoba Progressive Conservative authorities from 2016 until 2022, serving arsenic curate of families, finance, and earthy resources. Prior to that, he was a Winnipeg metropolis councillor from 2006 to 2014.

A sworn affidavit obtained by BERITAJA states the complainant was a workfellow of Fielding’s and that they attended a activity convention successful Winnipeg successful March 2024. The archive alleges they attended an after-party connected March 6, 2024, and Fielding continuously purchased intoxicant for the female and different colleagues.

The serviceman wrote successful the archive that Fielding past allegedly escorted her up to her edifice room and forced his measurement into the room, taking disconnected his clothing and forcing her onto the bed.

The affidavit states the female “pleaded pinch him to extremity but he ignored her pleas,” going connected to opportunity that she “tried to crawl distant but he attempted to beryllium forceful and outcry profanities astatine her.”

The complainant sustained wound marks and scratches, the archive states, but did not activity aesculapian attraction aliases complete a intersexual battle exam.

In April 2024, the complainant revenge a general title to their employer, KPMG — a backstage consulting patient — which conducted an independent, soul investigation. Fielding resigned astatine the conclusion of the investigation, nevertheless the archive did not authorities the investigation’s result aliases the reasoning for Fielding’s resignation.

The female initially reported the incident to RCMP but didn’t make a general connection until May 2025, erstwhile she reported it to constabulary successful different jurisdiction. It was past forwarded to the Winnipeg Police Service, which obtained a hunt warrant to entree KPMG’s soul investigation documents. KPMG is not nether investigation successful relationship pinch the incident, the affidavit states.

BERITAJA is not identifying the edifice wherever the incident allegedly occurred aliases the jurisdiction wherever the alleged intersexual battle was initially reported to protect the personality of the woman.

The charges against Fielding person not been tested successful court.