Peel Regional Police examines allegations of sexual attacks by 8 former Ohl players

Peel Regional Police examines allegations of sexual assault that a woman has raised against eight former players in the hockey league in Ontario, confirmed the department The athlete on Wednesday. The alleged incident that the woman said first in 2014 occurred publicly in October after an interview with the woman through the CTV message program “W5”.

TSN reported for the first time about the news of the police investigation.

The woman who said she was 22 years old at that time, said to “W5” that in a relationship with a 19-year-old player on the Mississauga Steelheads (now the Brampton Steelheads), who invited her to watch it with another team-mate in a ticket house, a family home that plays from the city in the city in the city that plays for the season in the local team. She said that the player brought her to a bathroom and initiated sexual acts and that what started as a mutual encounter was to become sexual group attacks with eight players between the ages of 16 and 19.

None of the players who supposedly participated in the attack were publicly named and reports have protected the identity of women.

According to “W5”, the woman tried to report what happened in February 2024, but the Ontario provincial police admitted that an employee did not follow a proper protocol by ensuring that the woman was associated with the right jurisdiction so that she had made a report.

“We can confirm that the civilian call participant provided the victim's contact information for the police service in order to facilitate his report. However, standard control procedures state that the caller personally associated the caller to the police service of jurisdiction and remains on the pipe until the call representative was able to confirm that a report was initiated, ”wrote the Opp spokeswoman Gosia Puzio in an email to“ W5 ”.

The athlete has contacted the Ohl and the Steelheads to get a comment. The Ohl said in October that it would work with future investigations.

Required reading

(Photo: Bruce Bennett / Getty Images)