WINNIPEG -- A senior Manitoba judge is facing allegations that nude photographs of her engaged in bondage and other sexual acts were posted on the Internet by her husband three years before she was appointed a judge.
CBC News reports that Alexander Chapman, a computer specialist, has filed a complaint against Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench associate chief justice Lori Douglas, and another complaint with the Manitoba Law Society against her husband, Jack King.
Chapman's complaint alleges that in 2003 King, who was his divorce lawyer, showed him photographs of Douglas performing oral sex and participating in several types of bondage and pressed him to have sex with her.
The CBC report said King's lawyer, Bill Gange, said his client was suffering from depression at the time, and Douglas was not aware her husband was soliciting a client to have sex with her or that he was posting the photos on a porn website devoted to interracial sex.
Chapman, who is black, told CBC said he was bothered by King's suggestions and pretended he was too busy with work to meet Douglas, who was a lawyer at the time. She was appointed as a judge in 2005.
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When asked by CBC News whether she disclosed the incident in her judicial application, Douglas replied she considered it a private matter, CBC News reported.
Chapman claims he received $25,000 from King in return for promises not to take legal action against King and his partners.
But Chapman told CBC News he decided to come forward despite having agreed not to speak about the matter and to destroy all materials sent to him by King because he felt emotionally distraught.
In a letter sent to the Manitoba Law Society earlier this month, King acknowledged he met and talked about sex with Chapman, but only after Chapman obtained his divorce in April 2003. King also denies Douglas knew of it, the CBC report said.
His lawyer said the events Chapman alleges were part of an isolated incident, and King's behavior at the time is not in any way consistent with his behavior, before or since.
