Five members of the 2018 world junior hockey team have been told to surrender to London, Ont., police to face charges of sexual assault, according to two sources.
The pending charges are connected to an alleged group sexual assault of a woman in a hotel room. The incident occurred following a Hockey Canada fundraising gala in June, 2018, where the players were honoured for their win at the world junior championships.
The players, who have not been charged yet, have been given a set period of time to present themselves at London police headquarters, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation who The Globe is not naming because they have not been authorized to speak on the case.
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I, for one, certainly hope that this isolated incident doesn’t besmirch the good name of youth hockey.
Legit can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Based on the voting I guess you’re not the only one. Either that or this sub is split 50/50 on hockey’s reputation.
I, for one
Typical hockey bros at it again
Don’t imagine that hockey is the only testosterone bro sport with the same problem.
It’s the hockey culture. I grew up playing high level hockey, and we can pretend it doesn’t exist or we can actually fix the culture.
It’s there, it’s bad, we all know it.
As a non-Hockey guy, surrounded by Hockey Jocks growing up: their stories and general view of women was horrible.
Hockey Canada’s draconian social media policy prevents critical discussion from becoming fruitful.
I am still nervously waiting on my wife’s impending disciplinary action. It’s been several months since she received that livid phone call from a league official who said the wheels were already on motion on our disciplinary case and it was too late to stop it.
It’s there, it’s bad, we all know it.
Of course it is.
My point is that it’s not the only sport with the same problems, and we shouldn’t limit ourselves to only fixing hockey culture.
I don’t get why there are no names? I can’t believe it has been allowed for so long hockey needs to be cleaned up.
The information hasn’t been publicly released, and there haven’t been any charged laid yet, so I think the newspaper is avoiding being blamed for interfering with an ongoing investigation.
Because the charges haven’t been filed yet. The London, Ontario police have asked them to turn themselves in so they can do that. We are hearing about it because those players are taking a leave of absence from their NHL teams.
The London, Ontario police said there will be a press conference on Monday February 5th to announce the charges. Then we will know exactly who is involved and the charges being raised.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Five members of the 2018 world junior hockey team have been told to surrender to London, Ont., police to face charges of sexual assault, according to two sources.
The players, who have not been charged yet, have been given a set period of time to present themselves at London police headquarters, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation who The Globe is not naming because they have not been authorized to speak on the case.
An initial investigation by the London police was closed without charges in February, 2019, and reopened about a year and a half ago after media reports on the incident.
The case, which has played out over a period of more than five years, garnered national attention, embroiling Hockey Canada in controversy and prompting parliamentary hearings into the governance of the organization.
The federal government went on to freeze the organization’s funding and high-profile sponsors including Scotiabank, Tim Hortons, and Canadian Tire pulled their financial support.
In July, The Globe reported that Hockey Canada had kept a multimillion-dollar reserve known as the National Equity Fund to pay out settlements in cases involving sexual-assault allegations.
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