“We’ve seen so much violence against women globally, and we’ve had enough. It’s not good to tick off a bunch of educated, organized women.”
Those are the words of Elmira-raised Brittany Wellington, one of the organizers behind last Sunday night’s Funeral4Justice vigil. Her sister was one of the complainants in the high-profile legal case in Kitchener against neurologist Jeffrey Sloka in which he was accused of 48 counts of sexual assault, a trial that resulted in a not-guilty verdict on April 24 after five years of proceedings.
“Obviously, as a family, we’ve been dealing with this for a substantial amount of time. When the verdict came out, we were despondent, to say the least. We absolutely did not anticipate that was going to be the result,” she told The Observer.
