Ex-Canada Post worker gets 4 years for extortion, sex assault
Posted November 15, 2013 5:32 pm.
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A judge sentenced an ex-Canada Post supervisor to four years in prison for extorting two Filipina women and sexually assaulting one of them.
Raymond Cole, 43, pleaded guilty last month to sexual assault, breach of trust, personation of a peace officer and extortion.
Cole was working as a Canada Post manager in June 2012 when he used his work computer to access personal information of his victims.
He then contacted them and told them they were under investigation for marriage fraud; he used an official badge of a customs enforcement official that he obtained to convince them he was a real agent.
He threatened them with arrest and deportation to get them to hand over thousands of dollars.
One victim, 51, who was forced to perform sex acts and raped in a hotel, went to police after she told a relative who told her to report it.
The victims, who were present at the sentencing hearing, say they know of at least three others who paid the accused thousands of dollars and police are urging them to come forward.
Cole was fired from Canada Post and has served 442 days in pre-trial custody.
