SAINT-JEROME - The trial of a former Rosemere High School teacher accused of sexually exploiting one of her students resumed in Saint-Jerome Monday after a two-month break.
Tania Pontbriand, 41, is accused of sexually exploiting a student when he was 15 years old.
Pontbriand's lawyers claim the alleged victim is making up the story.
In the summer of 2002, the young man, who cannot be named, had a routine similar to a daily 9-to-5 job, the 25-year-old man testified Monday.
He said his gym teacher-turned-lover Tania Pontbriand would pick him up at his mother's house, and the two would spend the entire day together, having sex more than once.
She would return him home for 5 p.m. every day, he said.
Under cross-examination, Pontbriand's two lawyers pressed him for details, such as trips Pontbriand and her student took to Toronto, which included rest stops every two hours along the highway for sex.
The young man said he couldn't recall if they had sex 200 or 300 times, and remembered some details, but not others.
The defence is seeking to prove that if the two were having sex so often, including in a parking lot most afternoons, they would have been caught by someone at some point.
That line of questioning led to testy exchanges in court between the lawyers, the prosecutor, and even the judge, who lost patience more than once.
Earlier this winter, the alleged victim testified that there had been close calls when Pontbriand's husband walked-in on the couple, but that the pair worked hard at covering their tracks, even making up elaborate lies to justify their unusual routine both to Pontbriand's husband, and the young man's mother.
The defence is seeking to show that the only person who ever lied, is the alleged victim.
The case continues all week.
