Monday, March 9, 1987
Dangerous Dai Winner and Falmouth Falcon Beater Kaleb Broadmoor is on trial this week at the Ministry for the 1985 rape and assault of a Hogwarts student, then 15.
Under Vertiserum in front of the Wizegnout the young girl admitted meeting the famous Quidditch player in Diagon Alley in the summer of 1985 and engaging in relations with the man at that time. By her own admission the girl was a silly child at that time, thinking “the arrangement not so different than a betrothal.” The student swears that was the last time she met with Mr Broadmoor before the November Gryfindor/Slytherin Quidditch match. When she met Mr. Broadmoor in the loo she told him numerous times to go away.
Mr. Broadmoor, a married father of three, also admits the affair, but swears it consensual and that he had no reason to believe the child was not of age.
The key witness for prosecution was Mr. Joel Watkins, 18, who attested that he met Mr. Broadmoor in the Hogwarts Quidditch locker room when the incident occurred, and saw the adult wizard leaving the girls loo. Mr. Watkins attested the girl came out later, crying. Mr. Broadmoor then shoved Mr. Watkins up against the locker room and told him not to tell anyone what he had seen. Mr. Watkins admitted that he had seen no actual violence against the girl, and that she did not tell him of the incident until much later. At the time she had only told him Mr. Broadmoor did not like to be told no. In an attempt to call his reliability as a witness into question Defense pointed out that Mr. Watkins and the victim are engaged. The Ministry of Magic archives however, show no current betrothal on file.
A second friend of the victim, testified that he heard the defendant talking to the girl at the Christmas gala that year, and that the young witch seemed beside herself with fear. The boy, however, is unable to give eyewitness testimony due to losing his eyesight in a childhood accident.
The girl's account of the November assault brought many members of the court to their feet in anger and sympathy. Mr. Broadmoor's boastful claim that the student asked for it were not so well received. Indeed, the girl's father had to be led from the room. Nor were the frequent smirks or eye rolls directed at the court. Mr. Broadmoor's fellow beater, Mr. Sioni Rhys also provided a surprisingly negative view of the man's on and off the field behavior and frequent womanizing. Priori Immeo spells preformed in the Hogwarts locker room do appear to show Mr. Broadmoor, and the two students were all there at the times that they claim. The Department of Magical Games and Sports has reportedly offered the girl a seeking position for the Applebee Arrows for dropping the case, which was declined.
If convicted Mr. Broadmoor could be looking at life in Azkaban. Sentencing will be next week.




Tessa Greengrass