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Five members of 2018 Canadian World Junior hockey team – including four current NHL players – have been ordered to surrender to police to be charged with sexual assault.
Those four players are Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers, Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils, and Dillon Dube of the Calgary Flames.
All four players recently took a “leave of absence” from their respective NHL teams.
Four NHLers – Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube & Cal Foote – have been directed to surrender to London police to be charged with sexual assault in connection with an alleged incident that occurred during a 2018 Hockey Canada event.
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Rick Westhead of The Sports Network reports all four players are expected to comply with the order.
“Gary Ellis, the former head of Toronto Police Service’s sex crimes unit, told TSN in an interview that the players would be photographed, fingerprinted, and directed to sign an undertaking not to have contact with the alleged victim, either the first time they report to police or at a subsequent date,” writes Westhead. “The five players are accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a London hotel on June 19, 2018, following a Hockey Canada Foundation golf and gala event.
“The complainant, a woman referred to as E.M. in court documents, met some of the players at a downtown bar following the event. She has alleged in a civil lawsuit that she left the bar with one man and had consensual sex with him. That man then invited other players to his room, without E.M.’s consent, to have sex with E.M., she alleged.”
None of the players have issued a statement regarding the allegations to this point. But they are also each presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a Canadian court of law.
Hockey Canada settled a $3.55-million lawsuit regarding the alleged attack in May of 2022.
Local police recently closed a multi-year investigation surrounding the allegations.