Police in London, Canada, have charged five NHL hockey players for alleged sexual assault following the 2018 World Junior Championship.
It was previously reported that Carter Hart (Philadelphia goalkeeper), Dillon Dube (Calgary forward), Michael McLeod (New Jersey forward), Cal Foote (New Jersey defenseman), who are part of the Canadian youth team who participated in the 2018 World Cup, ordered to surrender to the police in London, Ontario. The fifth person involved in the case, former Ottawa forward Alex Formenton, had already done so at the end of January.
McLeod is charged with the second count of sexual assault, while Hart, Foote, Dube and Formenton are charged with the first, more serious count.
London Police Chief Thai Truong has apologized to the victim of the alleged sexual assault and her family “for the time it took for the investigation to get to this point”.
Hockey Canada has been under public scrutiny since May 2022 after settling a $3.5 million lawsuit against a woman who alleged eight hockey players, including members of Canada’s 2018 Junior National Team, sexually assaulted her in a hotel while she was in a state of strong alcoholism. poisoning. Earlier it became known that the police were also investigating a case of suspected group sexual harassment by players of the Canadian junior team in 2003.
Source : MatchTV
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