There's a pattern of Muslim cabbie rapes. Just like there's a pattern of Muslim cab drivers denying access to blind people with seeing eye dogs. And there's also a pattern of the system bending over backward to be lenient to them.
Judge Gregory Lenehan found Bassam Al-Rawi, 40, not guilty Wednesday following a two-day trial in February in Halifax provincial court.
In May 2015, a police officer found a 26-year-old woman in the back of Al-Rawi's car. She was naked from the chest down, Al-Rawi had her urine-soaked underwear in his hands and test results later found her DNA on his upper lip.
The police officer said Al-Rawi's pants were halfway down his buttocks and his zipper was undone when he left the vehicle. Al-Rawi later told police that he doesn't button his pants when he drives long hours, according to a 2015 search warrant application.
So he lied. Blatantly.
The woman testified she recalls little from that night. She had been drinking at a downtown bar and doesn't remember getting into a cab.
A 2015 search warrant application mentions other situations involving Al-Rawi and female passengers.
One woman reported that Al-Rawi did not stop at her house, kept driving around the block while calling her "baby" and grabbed her hand and asked her to stay. The woman only wanted this information documented.
In another situation, a woman reported being intoxicated and getting into a cab driven by Bassam Abdullatif. Abdullatif and Al-Rawi are the same person, according to the search warrant.
Allegedly Al-Rawi took the woman up to his apartment and sexually assaulted her. The woman had limited recollection of the alleged assault.
And now this Muslim settler is free to do the same thing to more women.