
Hockey Canada
All Five Players Found Not Guilty
… In Sexual Assault Trial
Published
All 5 gamers charged within the Hockey Canada sexual assault case have been acquitted after an Ontario decide decided the allegations made towards them weren’t credible sufficient.
Superior Court Justice Maria Carrocia dominated Thursday the prosecution didn’t show the allegations past an affordable doubt … clearing all 5 males — together with NHLers Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Dillon Dubé, Alex Formenton and Cal Foote — of sexual assault expenses associated to a 2018 incident in a London, Ontario resort room.
McLeod, who confronted a further rely of being a celebration to sexual assault, was acquitted of that cost as effectively.
The case stemmed from a June 2018 Hockey Canada Foundation gala, after which a girl — recognized in court as “E.M.” — alleged she was intoxicated and sexually assaulted by a number of members of the 2018 Canadian World Juniors workforce.
The unique investigation carried out by each London police and Hockey Canada was closed in 2019 with no expenses being issued … however was revived in 2022 after E.M. sued Hockey Canada, which led to a settlement for an undisclosed sum.
The declare finally 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 finally 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.”