Day two of the trial against Estes Fonkaslrud began Tuesday morning relatively calmly, with Fonkalsrud quipping with the courtroom sheriff a few minutes before the trial began.

Judge Mills presided over the court with Todd Wellsch as prosecution, and Aaron Fox and co-council Darren Kraushaar defending Fonkalsrud. In total, three witnesses took to the stand.

The first witness of the day was a Corporate Security Manager for SaskTel. Experienced with 20 years in the position, she helped to comb over the phone records of multiple people that were present when police were called to Buffalo Pound two years ago after it was claimed Fonkalsrud had sexually assaulted a minor.

They looked over phone records including those of Fonkalsrud, the accuser, the accuser's two friends, and the owner of the cabin where the girls were staying on the evening of May 21st.

Phone calls were made between the accuser and her friend leading up to the events that are reported to have transpired the early morning of May 22nd. The records also showed unanswered phone calls between the two friends when the accuser left, and another from the cabin owners trying to contact Fonkalsrud on the morning of May 22nd, among other calls.

Following a short break, the second witness was called to the stand. She is one of the owners of the cabin where the girls were staying for the night and the mother of the second witness of Monday's court session.

The witness stated that she and her husband were friends of Fonkalsrud, often spending time with him at the lake, going to corporate events together, and spending evenings drinking at the witness' business.

Throughout the night, the witness said she noticed Fonkalsrud had been spending a little too much time talking with the girls, she saw him going between the two bedrooms where the three girls were staying and speaking to them, being inside as opposed to spending time outside with the other males at the cabin.

The witness said she became concerned about the amount of time Fonkaslrud was spending with the girls that evening. She said she did not notice Fonkalsrud focused on a girl in particular, until later on, especially after she saw he had followed the accuser into the washroom at her cabin. She spoke to him in the kitchen to get him away from the girls and told her husband about how much time he was spending with the girls, to which he replied, "he better not be."

According to the witness, all adults present then went into the living room and watched tv. The witness said Fonkaslrud was heading outside often, checking out her smoker and disappearing behind the house.

After the adults left for the night, the witness was checking on the girls, making sure they weren't hot in their rooms since they were often heading between the two bedrooms. She said things were quiet for a while and the girls weren't heading between the rooms, then the accuser and her friend went to the next room in a way which the witness described as upset and hurried. All three girls then came out and the accuser said she thought she was raped.

Fox had two problems with this. One was that in her police statement, the witness said she had checked all on all the girls gathered together in the room. When she left the girls then came out later and the accuser said she was raped. The witness attributed the lumping of these details to how tired, stressed, and emotional she was the morning when giving the statement.

Fox also noted how that prior to this testimony, the witness had never described the girls going past her upset. The witness explained that revisiting this case and pouring over the details helped her remember this.

During cross-examination, Fox said if she was mistaken about these two separate events in the statement, what else was she mistaken about in the police report. The witness made certain this was her only mistake.

Eventually, the night when the accuser claimed she was assaulted, everyone went home and Fonkalsrud left with another friend of theirs. The witness recounted her experiences with the accuser after the alleged assault happened. 

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The third witness to take the stand was the other cabin owner and the husband of the second witness.

He described that he and Fonkaslrud were good friends until the alleged incident took place.

He recounted the evening, saying it was a normal evening at the lake, noting he didn't keep track of time since they were out at the cabin.

When asked about who was consuming alcohol that night he said he and others, including Fonkalsrud,,

The witness testified that Fonkalsrud was spending a considerable amount of time inside the cabin, speaking to his wife and the girls.

He also noticed him going in and out of the house later in the night, telling the Court that later in the night when he and his wife sent the girls to bed, he found Fonkalsrud in the doorway, telling the witness he was making sure the girls go to bed, at which time the witness replied, telling him to get out of there.

The witness eventually fell asleep in his living room while watching a movie with his wife, when he woke up, he said he saw the accuser in his wife's arms, crying like "her dog had died."

He said he was shocked to learn of the accusation that Fonkalrud had touched her.  He said he doubted her at first so he asked her to describe Fonkalsrud cabin.  He said her description matched what the cabin looked like.

Furious, the witness walked to Fonkalsrud's cabin and said he saw that the living room light and bedroom light were on. He started banging on the door, calling out to Fonkalsrud, and he tried opening the door but it was locked. He said that was unusual.

He left and started making his way back towards his cabin, and a few minutes later, Fonkalsrud came outside.

As the witness began walking back towards Fonkalsrud, he went back inside. Annoyed, the witness went back to his own cabin.

Fox asked him why he didn't go back down to speak to him but the witness said he didn't want to be an instigator. Much later in the night, the witness tried calling Fonkalsrud but was forwarded to  voicemail.

Phone records show the call lasted 30 minutes. The witness claims he does not remember speaking for that long, saying he must have not hung up.

During the trial, defence lawyer Wellsch played a recording of the 9-1-1 calls the witness had made, playing two tapes of him speaking to police.

The evening of the alleged assault, the witness told the Court he urged the girls to be completely truthful to the police in their statements because they were "dealing with a professional".

He also stated he was unaware that the girls were drinking alcohol and that they later lied about it in the initial report to police.

With that, the prosecution case was complete, giving the defense a turn to present theirs.

The very first thing they did was submit the police statement transcripts of two people present the night of the alleged incident, local MLA Greg Lawrence and his wife.

The defense will continue their case Wednesday morning at 10 am, where they will present more evidence to the court.