Posted: Feb 16, 2021 5:01 PM AT | Last Updated: February 16 Sem Paul Obed is shown at a 2018 court appearance in Halifax.(CBC) A Nova Scotia Supreme Court hearing opened Tuesday in Halifax for a man who pleaded guilty to a violent sexual assault in June 2018. The Crown is seeking to have Sem Paul Obed declared a dangerous offender and locked up indefinitely. According to information provided at the hearing where Obed entered his plea, the victim was sleeping when he appeared in her bedroom. He was dressed only in a ball cap and basketball shoes. The woman attempted to fight him off but he overpowered her.