A Prince George-area man testified Tuesday that he once bought sexual services from one of Cody Alan Legebokoff's alleged victims but, within about two weeks of that encounter, became her caregiver as she struggled to conquer her drug addiction.
A sometimes tearful and sobbing Jim Giller told the court that when he first set eyes on Jill Stacey Stuchenko as she stood alongside a stretch of road in the Queensway-Juniper area, he turned his sport utility vehicle around and introduced himself.
Giller said he paid for sex from Stuchenko but when he got in touch with her a second time, it was for a different reason.
"I wanted to get her off the streets," Giller said.
Giller lived in a cabin near a lake about a 40-minute drive out of town. Whenever Stuchenko needed to get out of the city, she would call Giller and he would take her back to his home.
"She would pass out, and she'd be out for 18 to 20 hours," Giller said, his voice quivering. "I would go to work and come back and find her head exactly on the same pillow as she had been left there.
"She would wake up after that time and [would be] very hungry so we would cook something together and go down to the lake for a swim after that and I would leave her alone in the sun room with her books and the books she was reading were self-help books."
But after three or four days, she would get the "itch," make her way back into Prince George "and get back into that cycle again." Giller said he would sometimes give her a ride or she'd get someone else to pick her up.
