Hockey Canada
All 5 Gamers Discovered Not Responsible
… In Sexual Assault Trial
Revealed
All 5 gamers charged within the Hockey Canada sexual assault case have been acquitted after an Ontario decide decided the allegations made in opposition to them weren’t credible sufficient.
Superior Court docket Justice Maria Carrocia dominated Thursday the prosecution didn’t show the allegations past an inexpensive doubt … clearing all 5 males — together with NHLers Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Dillon Dubé, Alex Formenton and Cal Foote — of sexual assault costs associated to a 2018 incident in a London, Ontario lodge room.
McLeod, who confronted a further rely of being a celebration to sexual assault, was acquitted of that cost as properly.
The case stemmed from a June 2018 Hockey Canada Basis gala, after which a girl — recognized in courtroom as “E.M.” — alleged she was intoxicated and sexually assaulted by a number of members of the 2018 Canadian World Juniors group.
The unique investigation performed by each London police and Hockey Canada was closed in 2019 with no costs being issued … however was revived in 2022 after E.M. sued Hockey Canada, which resulted in a settlement for an undisclosed sum.
The declare ultimately went public and garnered huge consideration … and the London police subsequently reopened their investigation.
The trial, which started in April, confronted two mistrials earlier than ultimately shifting to a judge-only format.
Video recordings of the complainant after the encounter, to which the defendants argued confirmed her voluntary consent within the acts, proved to be central to the protection, and Justice Carrocia finally discovered the accuser’s testimony was “neither credible nor reliable.”
