Jae-Kap Song, 57, will know next week whether he has been found guilty of sexually penetrating a 30-year-old member of his Jesus First Korean congregation with a finger without her consent, or if the complainant has been lying about an incident of two years ago.

Superior Court Justice Katherine van Rensburg, following closing arguments in the assault trial of Pastor Song, said she would deliver her verdict at 9 a.m. on Feb. 9.

The closing arguments were to have begun at 10 a.m., based on a full day of prosecution evidence from the complainant Tuesday and from the accused and one defence witness Wednesday, but were delayed beyond 11 a.m. by disclosure of an apparently hitherto unknown video of another female parishioner parading around the convenience store in the nude.

Given that the store/ office/workshop have an elaborate series of security cameras, and that the Toronto Star had reported such an incident at the time of Mr. Song’s arrest, the surprising last-minute discovery of the video seemed surprising in itself.

It wasn’t clear what weight, if any, would be attached to the video. Its existence has simply been noted in the agreed statement of facts.

In his closing argument, defence lawyer Christophe Preobrazenski reviewed the evidence and the timing of the complaint as demonstrating his client’s innocence. It is generally his position that the complaint against Mr. Song was a vengeful act by the complainant, as it had been Mr. Song’s initiatives that resulted in the filing of 485 charges against nine members of his congregation, including the complainant’s husband. Those charges have since been dropped.

On the other hand, Crown Attorney Lowell Hunking relied somewhat on the demeanour and deportment of witnesses as indicating whether they were truthful.

He said the 30-year-old, universitytrained complainant had chosen to address the Court in English, her second language, rather than through an interpreter so that the true account would be properly understood, and she had remained “un- scathed” in the face of cross examination.

The accused, he said, answered his lawyer’s questions with a “yes” or “no” until confronted with the allegation of detecting evil spirits, at which time he said, “I don’t want to hear any more about that.” Mr. Hunking noted, among other things, that the one witness for the defence gave himself a half-hour leeway when asked about times.

As nearly as could be determined, Mr. Song was ordained as a Korean Presbyterian minister in 1995 following studies through Chongshin Theological University and New York Reformed Theological Seminary.